Burundi Proverb
Where there is love there is no darkness.
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To go fast, row slowly.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Success leaves clues.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
The cherokee people are not "my people".
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Real love stories never have endings.
This too, shall pass.
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Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
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A bold onset is half the battle.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
There's no crying in baseball !
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
We rob banks.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
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.