Quotes

If you have a big enough dream, you don’t need a crisis.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening my axe.

Until you make the Unconscious Conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I fear not the man who practiced 10,000 kicks once but I fear the man who practiced one kick 10,000 times.

If you think you are too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

You either step forward into growth or back into safety.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When you don’t go within, you go without.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

The wound is where the light enters.

Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘nothing’ for you.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.

If you change the way you look at things. The things you look at change.

It is easy to stand in a crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.  If you want to eliminate suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.  For truly, the greatest gift you have to offer humanity, is your own transformation

The more I practice, the luckier I get

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Awareness is an energy that transforms anything it comes in contact with.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

When spiderwebs unite they can halt even a lion.