Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Hope springs eternal.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
I like to watch.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Do it now !
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Shut up and deal.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
You sing-a high.
Truth fears no questions.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
You can do what you want to do.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Life is what you make it.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Somebody stop me !
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.