Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

I'm always just focused on being great where I'm at and blooming where I'm planted.

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.