Canary Island Proverb
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
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Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Rosebud.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
I think therefore I am
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I know that I will die laughing.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
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.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
There is no education like adversity.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Hope springs eternal.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
May you live all the days of your life.
Life is what you make it.
Love is friendship set to music
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Where's the rest of me ?