Anthony Dalla Villa
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
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You complete me.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Change comes from within.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
High expectations are the key to everything.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Remove failure as an option.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Love the giver more than the gift.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
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.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Go ahead, make my day.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Be the ball.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Love is a verb.
One man with courage is a majority.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Follow the money.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Love is not selfish.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.