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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Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Never complain about what you permit.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
There are no gains without pains.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Where there is love there is life.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
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.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
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.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Practice makes perfect.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
They're here !
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Experience is the best teacher.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Say hello to my little friend !
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.