Daily Quote Archives

“Strive for excellence, not perfection.”

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

“With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“Leaders don't force people to follow — they invite them on a journey.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.”

“Close your eyes and you will see, that you are all you really need.”

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book... ”

“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

“If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.'”

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

“Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

“If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.”

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

“I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, 'I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.'”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work. You don't give up.”

“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.”

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ”

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”