“When you think you can’t, revisit a previous triumph.”

When you do something you love with passion and perseverance, you are already a success. Even if you never hit the big time, who cares?

To be truly rich includes not only financial freedom but developing rich, meaningful relationships, enriching your health, and enjoying a rich balance between your career and your personal life.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

You Can’t Hire Someone Else to Do Your Push-ups for You.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what’s going on?

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you’re already a success.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Carry your most important goal in your wallet.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what’s out of your control.

Never let people who choose the path of least resistance steer you away from your chosen path of most resistance.

I don’t want my personality to overshadow my talent.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.