Claudia Black
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Live your life and forget your age.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Love is the whole and more than all.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
There's no place like home.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Don't water your weeds.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
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.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Shut up and deal.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
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.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
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.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.