Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
Just be yourself, there is no one better.
People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
One Choice One Choice, decided your friends. One Choice, defines your beliefs. One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever. ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.