Brian Andres
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
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.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Think and grow rich.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
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.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
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.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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 ?
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
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.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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.
The book you don't read cant help.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
There is no education like adversity.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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.