Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Where there is love there is life.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Better late than never.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
You become what you think about.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Change your thoughts, change your life.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The best things in life are free.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
This is nothing !
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Warriors, come out to play !
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
You are what you think about all day long.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Be the ball.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.