Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
There is time for everything.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Don't quit.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
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.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
All mankind love a lover.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
A woman who is loved always has success.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Begin with the end in mind.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
As if !
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
Ideas... they have the power
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
I think we deserve a break.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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.
Follow your dreams.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
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.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
The best way out is always through.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.