Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy and his followers do the same. Be watchful and keep that in mind.

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

If you don't know how, why pretend?

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.