Christina Rossetti
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
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Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
No matter where you go, there you are.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Do it now !
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
How do you live ?
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
All-righty then !
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Truth fears no questions.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
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.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
The best way out is always through.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.