Anais Nin
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.
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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.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
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 !
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
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.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
I light my candle from their torches.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
They can because they think they can.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Things do not change we change.
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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Believe in yourself.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Success is the child of audacity.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.