Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Union gives strength.
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I don't like your manners.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Non !
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Be the best that you can be.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Ideas... they have the power
Hi-Yo, Silver !
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
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.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Open the pod bay doors,
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.