If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.
Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it. I can do it. Let's do it.
