Birke Baehr
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
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Don't water your weeds.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
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.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Hey, lady !
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Think and grow rich.
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.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Be all you can be.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
If you build it, he will come.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Things do not change we change.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
A bold onset is half the battle.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
It's good to be the king !
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
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.
Success leaves clues.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.