Bernice Johnson Reagon
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Our intentions create our reality.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
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 art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Think and grow rich.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Reach for the stars.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
They're here !
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Nothing succeeds like success.
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.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
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.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
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.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
He who hesitates is lost !
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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 !
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
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.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Love is something eternal.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.