Barry Neil Kaufman
Happiness is a choice.
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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
There's no crying in baseball !
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Yo, Adrian !
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
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.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Forget about it.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Love is friendship set to music
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
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.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Success is never wondering what if.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !