Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
There are no mistakes, only opportunities.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
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.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both.
You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.
Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.
Don’t be afraid to fail. It’s not the end of the world, and in many ways, it’s the first step toward learning something and getting better at it.
Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore.
It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake. –
A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
