Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
Less make-up is better, and it’s always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.
Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.
You’re only as good as your last haircut.
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
In this bright future you can’t forget your past.
If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Don’t just count your years, make your years count.
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it, A song’s not a song ’til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Do your best and leave the rest to God.
When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It’s impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You’re an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.
Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.
Live your life to its fullest potential and don’t really care too much about what other people think of you.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
It’s a great feeling when your work is appreciated.
What you feel inside reflects on your face. So be happy and positive all the time.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
