Albert Careb
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
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The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
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.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Happiness is a choice.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
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.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The road to success is always under construction.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
You make me want to be a better man.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
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.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
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.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
I want to be alone.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
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.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Well, nobody's perfect.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I like to watch.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
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.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.