Words to live by

If you are not willing to learn, nobody can help you.

If you are determined to learn, nobody can stop you.

Action without knowledge is futile and knowledge without action is useless.

Don’t despise what you’ve been through. You needed the lesson

All things happen for a reason.

God made you for a reason. Your task is to find out why.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

You don’t need a new day to start things over; you need a new mindset.

Only two people are happy in this world: The mad man and the child.

You have to be a mad man to achieve what you desire and to be a child to enjoy what you have.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

You cannot control what life throws in your path but you can always control how you react.

Pain is unavoidable; suffering is your choice.

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.

No! You cannot have the cake and eat it too.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The “old you” has to die and a “new you” has to be born in order to change

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

At the end of life you will not regret the mistakes you have done but the mistakes you have not done

Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what’s really important.

The Ego says “once everything fall into place, I’ll find peace”

The Spirit says  “find peace and everything will fall into place”

What would you do if you knew today was the last day of your life?

The deeper the darkness; the brighter the light of God.

You cannot win an argument with an ignorant person. Only an intelligent person can accept a new idea.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Is better to have an intelligent enemy than a stupid friend.

Challenges is what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Don’t practice until you get it right.  Practice until you can’t get it wrong.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Never lie to someone who trusts you.

Never bite more than you can chew.

Never say never