Armenian Proverb
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Love is a great beautifier.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
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.
Attitude determines altitude.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
One man with courage is a majority.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Seize the day.
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.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.