Benjamin Franklin
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Well done is better than well said.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Well done is better than well said.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
You are what you think about all day long.
He who hesitates is lost !
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Reach for the stars.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Roll with the punches.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Never, never, never give up.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
They're here !
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
They can because they think they can.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Love is letting go of fear.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Adventure is worthwhile.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Seize the day.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.