Ben Hecht
Love is a hole in the heart.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Slow but steady wins the race.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
This is the beginning of a new day.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Okay, but I get to be on top.
Love is perfect kindness
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Houston, we have a problem.
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.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Can you dig it ?
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Happy wife, happy life.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Reach for the stars.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
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
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.