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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
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.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Here's Johnny !
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
We're sisters under the same mink.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
You become what you think about.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
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.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
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.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
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.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
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.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Never Quit.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Bond. James Bond.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
It ain't over till it's over.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.