The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
It's good to be the king !
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
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.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
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.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
You are what you think about all day long.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
For with god all things are possible.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
None are homely who smile.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Do you like scary movies ?
Security is a kind of death.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Perfect love can not be without equality.