poet Quotes

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

• 761
• life

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

• 749
• love

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

• 667
• Success

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

• 562
• friendship

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

• 447
• wisdom

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

• 432
• love

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

• 400
• inspirational

Wherever you are, whatever you do, be in love.

• 399
• love

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

• 395
• happiness

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

• 379
• priority

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

• 373
• character

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

• 371
• grief

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

• 363
• education

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

• 353
• change

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

• 318
• valentines

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

• 317
• Beauty

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

• 310
• talking

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

• 310
• blame

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

• 309
• Defeat

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

• 290
• kindness

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

• 267
• self

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

• 246
• life

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

• 241
• personality

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

• 237
• people

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

• 225
• Music

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

• 216
• yourself

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

• 211
• teen

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

• 207
• wisdom

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

• 207
• friends

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

• 200
• patience

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

• 194
• change

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

• 193
• creativity

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

• 187
• Strength

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

• 185
• inspirational

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

• 182
• words

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

• 180
• ritual

Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.

• 179
• quotes

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

• 174
• Words

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

• 174
• Travel

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

• 170
• loneliness

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

• 169
• life

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

• 163
• women

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

• 162
• already

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

• 162
• Self

You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely.

• 156
• choice

Forever is composed of nows.

• 156
• experience

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

• 154
• surviving

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

• 150
• defeat

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

• 149
• Adversity

Silence has many beauties.

• 143
• beauty