Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The best way out is always through.
I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.