World is not fair. But you can be.

• Fixed mindset: “I can’t do this.”
• Growth mindset: “I can learn this.”

Loneliness is the price you pay when you start to improve yourself.

Be the reason someone believes in good people.

How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.
• A yes from God blesses you.
• A no from God protects you.
• A waiting from God prepares you.
One day people who don’t believe in you will tell everyone they met you.
Don’t waste your time with explanations; people only hear what they want to hear.
Happiness is not about getting all you want; it’s about enjoying all you have.
Don’t trip over what’s behind you.
Patience is also a form of action.
Go after dreams, not people.
Be with someone who makes you happy.
Change is scary, but change is growth.
Be valuable, not available.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
People change in four seasons:

• When they hurt enough, they have to.
• When they see enough, they are inspired to.
• When they learn enough, they want to.
• When they receive enough, they are able to.

Two clever people can’t fall in love; true love needs one idiot.
If I cut you off, chances are you handed me the scissors.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Two waterfalls do not hear each other.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead to understanding ourselves.
All monkeys can’t hang from the same branch.
The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Man is not what he thinks he is; he is what he hides.
The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget the other set are human.
The world has teeth and can bite you anytime; teach your heart to accept disappointments, even from people you love.
Everything is real, but not everyone is true.
“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing it.
The world breaks everyone, and afterwards some are strong in the broken places.
He suffers more than necessary who suffers before it is necessary. — Seneca
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
It is simple to be happy, but difficult to be simple.
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Circumstances do not make a man; they reveal him.
Manipulation is when they focus on how you reacted instead of how they treated you.
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
In times of war, the law falls silent.
Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to their mistakes.
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
If the path before you is clear, you are probably on someone else’s.
You become what you understand.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Open your mind before you open your mouth.
Those who think they know everything are an annoyance to those who do.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, pause and reflect.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody should not be trusted by anybody.
If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.
I think wealth is joy in the abundance of nothing.
When you fully trust someone without doubt, you get either a person for life or a lesson for life.
If your absence doesn’t bother them, your presence didn’t matter.
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
It is frightful that people so ignorant should have so much influence.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The worst enemy you meet is yourself.
What is stress? The gap between expectation and reality. Expect nothing and accept everything.
A man gets what he wants by acting smart; a woman, by playing dumb.
Women may forgive a man who presses an opportunity, but never one who misses it.
Love makes the wisest man a fool, and the most foolish woman a sage.
Little girls are won with dolls; big girls with dollars.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake—you can’t learn from being perfect.
No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach to hell.
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Many think they are buying pleasure, when they are selling themselves to it.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as beautiful.
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inward courage dares to live.
The saddest aspect of life is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gains wisdom.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Never tell somebody everything; you might be educating an enemy.
Make today so awesome that yesterday gets jealous.
Your mind is a garden; your thoughts are seeds—you can grow flowers or weeds.
Knowledge is not free; you must pay attention.
Knowledge decides what to say, skill decides how to say it, attitude decides how much to say, and wisdom decides whether to say it or not.
Open your eye and close your “I.”
Temper gets us into trouble; pride keeps us there.
Raise your words, not your voice; rain grows flowers, not thunder.
You don’t have to attend every argument you’re invited to.
Most people don’t want the truth; they want reassurance their beliefs are right.
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.
Competition is the law of the jungle; cooperation is the law of civilization.
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
We all love ourselves more than others, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Everyone sees what you appear to be; few experience what you really are.
A wise man doesn’t say everything he thinks, but thinks everything he says.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Always remember: rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Birds in a cage think flying is an illness.
The past is where you learned the lesson; the future is where you apply it—don’t give up in the middle.
We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.
Not all storms come to destroy your life; some clear your path.
Never be a prisoner of your past.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.
Be careful what you tolerate—you teach people how to treat you.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Patience with family is love; with others, respect; with self, confidence; with God, faith.
Detachment is not that you own nothing, but that nothing owns you.
Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Life’s tragedy is that we get too old too soon and wise too late.
Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.
Accept people as they are, but place them where they belong.

Best OM is HOME.
Best AGE is COURAGE.
Best MILE is SMILE.
Best STAND is UNDERSTAND.
Best END is FRIEND.
The best day is TODAY.

Dogs bark at what they don’t understand.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
Don’t let “what ifs” hold you back.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it.
Those who are hardest to love need it most.
When I am silent, I have thunder inside.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Sweat more during peace, bleed less during war.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.
There is wisdom of the head and of the heart.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.
Being poor is not having too little; it is wanting more.
Practice what you preach or change your speech.
Mistakes are portals of discovery.
Once you realize your value, you’ll be surprised what you used to settle for.
Sometimes, when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried—but you’ve been planted.
Salt and sugar look the same.
If people treat you like an option, leave them like a choice.
The secret of man’s being is not just to live, but to have something to live for.
We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like. — Tyler Durden
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Nostalgia is a liar.
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
It’s never a stranger who betrays you.
The truth is the one thing nobody will believe.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Any fool can know; the point is to understand.
You have to die a few times before you can live.
Experience is the name we give our mistakes.
Your life isn’t yours if you care what others think.
Fix yourself before you try to fix others.
Seek zero advice from people not where you want to be in life.
No matter how much you trust people, never let anyone know everything about you.
Pride comes before the fall.
A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.