Poverty wont allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down - Madagasy proverb

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot - Michael Althsuler

“When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.” -Miguel Ruiz

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.” ~Lao Tzu

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." -Einstein

"To err is human, to forgive..divine." - Alexander Pope

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

"We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision." -Unknown

"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." -Harry Kemp

Never cut what you can untie - Joseph Joubert

Its not about how hard you can hit, its about how hard you can GET hit. - Rocky Balboa

"If" - by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream  - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat these two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count on you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” H. Jackson Brown, JR.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. - Quote from the movie "A Bronx Tale"

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions"

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

"The purveyors of peace need the weapons of war to bring harmony." - Mehul A. Patel

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch with, never say a word, and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you have ever had. - Unknown

"People are always planning how to spend the next thirty years. I am asking how do you want to spend this moment? Free, bound, joyous, stuck, miserable, attached, loving..how? See, only this moment is guaranteed. The next moment is not guaranteed for anybody." - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

"Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house, like a lot of houses. A yard like a lot of other yards. On a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back...with wonder.." - Concluding narration in the final episode of The Wonder Years

"Greet whatever arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact." - Wing Chun martial arts philosophy

What we don't understand, we fear. What we fear, we judge as evil. What we judge as evil, we attempt to control. And what we cannot control...we attack.

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei

Life is 20% what happens to you, 80% how you respond to it.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. -Ethel Barrymore

There is nothing noble about being superior to someone else. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. - Hindu proverb

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats - Gandhi

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Alexander Pope

Never give up on something you cant go a day without thinking about

Hope dies last.

Hope is what keeps us going, trying to achieve whatever it is that we want to achieve. It gives us the glimmer of light when there is darkness all around. If everything fails in our endeavors, hope will be the last thing to die. Once hope is gone, it is over. This is why hope always dies last.

You were born an original, don't die a copy.

To me this means: Don't try to be like anyone else. Be original, be your own person, invent your own ideas. Be a leader instead of a follower, and great things shall come for not just you, but for the world.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Do or do not, there is no try - Master Yoda

Whoever wrote this line for Yoda in "The Empire Strikes Back" was a genius. This simple line says many things. To me, it means that if youre going to do something, put your 100% into it. Dont do it half-assed. It doesnt matter if you fail. What matters is that you put your all into it.

Opportunities are never lost, they are taken by others.