Alfred Adler
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
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Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
My precious.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Where there is love there is life.
Anything is possible.
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.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
He who has hope has everything.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
All you need is love.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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.
Sanctuary !
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Love conquers all.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
They are able because they think they are able.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Non !
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.