If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose.

When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have.

You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.

If you keep your eyes open enough,
oh, the stuff you will learn.
Oh the most wonderful stuff.

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

It always seems impossible until its done.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves:

What weakness did I overcome today?
What virtue did I acquire?

If you are depressed, you are living in the past.

If you are anxious, you are living in the future.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Close some doors today.

Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.

Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results.

There are no true tragedies, only lessons.

And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.