“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”

You are in charge of your own happiness; you don’t need to wait for other people’s permission to be happy.

Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they’re blessings or lessons.

Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.

Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.

The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.

If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.

Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.

Dreams don’t work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.

I dream about the lover I wish I had, and all the ways I could be touched by him.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don’t need a co-signer to chase them!

I always dream about winning the Ballon d’Or.

I didn’t really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.