We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

I've learned that no matter what happens or how bad it seems today life does go on and it will be better tomorrow.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle and it will never reduce the power of its light... One's knowledge will never be stunt by distributing it among others.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit, Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

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.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

He is able who thinks he is able.

We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

Books are not men, and yet they stay alive.

The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. 

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

I can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

In the End we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Peace is its own reward.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

In the arena of human life. the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Tears are words that need to be written.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

A man is the origin of his action.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

A man is but the product of his thoughts - what he thinks he becomes.

If I were two-faced would I be wearing this one?

Everything you can imagine is real.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day today and I'm going to be happy in it.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

You never fail until you stop trying

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Live a little, comfort a little, cheer thyself a little.

Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.

You see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say "Why not?"

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

I do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is....

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act on upon them?

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

All men by nature desire to know.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean, if a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

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.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not even one man’s greed.

Don't let them change ya, or even rearrange ya.

Don’t fear failure, in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

What we think we become.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present.

If you do not change the direction in which you are going you will end up where you are headed.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Anyone can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.

Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

To be always intending to make a new and better life, but never to find time to set about it, is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Be vigilant, guard your mind against negative thoughts.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I will love the light, for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness, because it shows me the stars.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Perfection is not attainable but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives we need to stretch our minds.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and, though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world

A man who has no imagination has no wings.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Everything's gonna be all right!

If you don't like how things are change it! You're not a tree.

The best revenge is massive success.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

All that is not given is lost.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses

Give, even if you only have a little.

Trust in dreams for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

We can't be brave without fear.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.

Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something, and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

We have all a better guide in ourselves if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

If you can dream it then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us, and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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

To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

If you are going through hell keep going.

We are what we believe we are.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The act of discovering  who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. Important rules are dictated by our hearts.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires and animates is something celestial, divine and consequently imperishable.

You did the best that you knew how. Now that you know better, you’ll do better.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

We need much less than we think we need.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

We are, therefore, out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. 

Ego=1/Knowledge. More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

It ain't what they call you it's what you answer to.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Life well spent is long.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

This above all, to thine own self be true.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.