Words worth keeping

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.