Alanis Morrissette
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
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If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
All mankind love a lover.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
Hunker down.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Open the pod bay doors,
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Success is a journey not a destination.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Without a general an army is lost.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
You sing-a high.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Better late than never.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
It is never too late to be what we might have been
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
You become what you think about.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.