“Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve so much more.” 

When you meet me, you think I’m quiet. When you talk to me, you wish I was quiet. When you know me, you get scared when I’m quiet.

Be Happy Be Yourself, if others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody. 

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

Anyone can buy a good house, but good neighbors are priceless.

“Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

“Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve so much more.” 

“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”