life-lessons-quotes

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.

You can paint the whole sky black, but that won__ keep stars from shinning.

The greatest universe is not somewhere out there, but inside of yourself.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

If you have the power to think, you have the power to change your world.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

The worm__ bad luck is the bird__ good fortune.

Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.

Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none.

One who protects himself from negative thoughts protects himself from negative outcomes.

Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.