Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.

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.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.