Learn a lot. Laugh a lot. Love a lot. Live a lot.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take charge of them.