Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.

Lady's mouth tasted like blood and iron all the time now. It tasted like defeat.

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.