Anne Sophie Swetchine
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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.
Here's Johnny !
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
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.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
The show must go on.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Many hands make light work.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Attitude is everything.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
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.
Well done is better than well said.