If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

To create something you must be something.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I’m a can-do girl.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The doer alone learneth.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I only want my work to make people happy.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.