Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.