Quotes to inspire and reflect

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.

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

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four; unless there are three other people.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

I have decided to be happy, because it's good for my health.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

There is a women at the beginning of all great things.

What difference does it make if the thing you’re scared of is real or not?

I don’t come to bow, I come to conquer.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.

What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

Great spirits have always been violently oppressed by mediocre minds.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

Live your life and forget your age.

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.