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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I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
I'm an excellent driver.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
The time is always right to do what is right.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Every dog has his day.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Life is the first gift, love is the second.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Hey, lady !
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
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.
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.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
The show must go on.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Children are all foreigners.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You're good, you're very good.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
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