Charles M. Shultz
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
All-righty then !
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
The world belongs to the energetic.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Have you checked the children lately ?
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Success is the child of audacity.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Work is love made manifest.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Love is not selfish.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Many hands make light work.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
May the Force be with you.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
I'm going to take a bath.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
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.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.