“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

“Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

“When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.”

“Work to become, not to acquire.”

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.”

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.”

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“Successful people use their time in a wise manner, unlike the mediocre people who squander it away on a daily basis.”

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”