Anton Chekhov
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Never stop dreaming.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Great men are not always wise.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Love is the only gold.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Talkers are no good doers.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
The best proof of love is trust.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
My heart is ever at your service.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
It's good to be the king !
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.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
If you build it, he will come.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.