Anthony Dalla Villa
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
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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.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
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.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Love is the only rational act.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
All mankind love a lover.
Remove failure as an option.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Talkers are no good doers.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
You complete me.
They alone live, who live for others.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
None are homely who smile.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Our intentions create our reality.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.