Life can only be understood backwards;

but it must be lived forwards.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

The more I see,
the less I know for sure.

Have patience.
All things are difficult
before they become easy.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

I cried because I had no shoes
till I met a man who had no feet

Be Content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize
there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Whatever is produced in haste
goes hastily to waste.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

We can complain
because rose bushes have thorns,

or rejoice
because thorn bushes have roses.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

The unhappiest people in this world,
are those who care the most
about what other people think.

Forget yesterday,
it has already forgotten you.

Don't sweat tomorrow,
you haven't even met.

Instead, open your eyes and your heart
to a truly precious gift: today.

In a country well governed,
poverty is something to be ashamed of.

In a country badly governed,
wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Life is 10 percent
what happens to you

and 90 percent
how you respond to it.

The mind is its own place,
and in itself can make a heaven of hell,
a hell of heaven.