Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind. It makes us value the inner world, it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I light my candle from their torches.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Non !
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
To know me is to love me.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Love is perfect kindness
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
There is no education like adversity.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Go ahead, make my day.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Truth fears no questions.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Union gives strength.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
Where there is love there is no darkness.