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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Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
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.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Success is never wondering what if.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Follow your dreams.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
I am your father.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Love knows no bounds.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Love that is true never grows old.
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.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
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.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
May you live all the days of your life.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Never Quit.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
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.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Adventure is worthwhile.
We rob banks.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.