Anna Quindlen
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.
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Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
What is life without the radiance of love.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
We will either find a way or make one.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Be Here Now.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
Every dog has his day.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
They're here !
The dingo took my baby !
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Somebody stop me !
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
You sing-a high.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
The best way out is always through.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Don't dream it be it.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
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.
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 ?
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Never Quit.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.