Blaise Pascal
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
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Houston, we have a problem.
Talkers are no good doers.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
The sun will come up tomorrow
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
What hump ?
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The show must go on.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Here's Johnny !
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Live your dreams.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
They can because they think they can.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love that is true never grows old.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
The past does not equal the future.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
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.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Life is what you make it.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
The beginning is the half of every action.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.