Words of Wisdom

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Creativity takes courage.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Wisdom is not found in books alone. It comes from understanding the world, learning from experience, and knowing yourself.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The present moment is filled with joy and beauty. If you are attentive, you will see it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.

Hope is being able to see that there is a light despite all of the darkness.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Wisdom is not found in books alone, but in the hearts of those willing to listen.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.