There is more to life than increasing its speed.
If you are distressed by anything external, pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Life is not a matter of having good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
Most fools are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
A negative mind will never get you a positive life.
Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace.
When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
Worry is a misuse of your imagination.
Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives.
Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
He who smiles instead of rages is always the stronger.
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.