Alphonse Marie De Lamartine
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Love is the river of life in the world.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
You're as old as you behave.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
You are what you think you are.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
This is this.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.