Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.