“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind rather than on outward circumstances.”

“Your spark can become a flame and change everything. ”

“Believe that you have it, and you have it. ”

“Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.”

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.”

“I believe that when you realize who you really are, you understand that nothing can stop you from becoming that person.”

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger in the broken places.”

“I try to learn from the finite, the lessons of the infinite. ”

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder. ”

“If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. ”

“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ”

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”

“The mind determines what’s possible. The heart surpasses it. ”

“Leap and the net will appear.”

“You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.”

“Be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life's a great balancing act. And will you succeed? Yes! you will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed). Kid, you'll move mountains.”

“Life is better because you know more, not just because you have more.”

“You can't lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“The things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. ”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ”

“Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.”

“I am because you are.”

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out of bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”

“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as a seed goes to the next as a blossom and that which came to me as a blossom, goes on as fruit.”

“Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good person takes in doing good.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. ”

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