I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure.
It's all a question of how I view my life.

It's not the load that breaks you down,
it's the way you carry it.
 

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.

Give a bowl of rice to a man
and you will feed him for a day.
Teach him how to grow his own rice
and you will save his life.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

No matter what your history has been,
your destiny is what you create today.
What are you going to create?

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.