Clint Smith
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
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O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Talkers are no good doers.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Can you dig it ?
Be who you are in every situation.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
If it is to be it is up to me.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
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.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
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.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
How do I look ?
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Love is perfect kindness
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Nothing succeeds like success.
How do you live ?
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.