Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.