Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The past does not equal the future.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
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.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Life is what you make it.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
You had me at hello.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
No involvement, no commitment.
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.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I'll be back.
No man is wise enough by himself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.