Charles Caleb Colton
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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Indecision is the seedling of fear.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
To infinity and beyond !
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Where there's life, there's hope.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
One man with courage is a majority.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
My friends are my estate.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
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.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Say hello to my little friend !
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.