Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
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.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
We can only learn to love by loving.
The show must go on.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
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.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
It's always too soon to quit !
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
You had me at "hello".
Forget about it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
I am your father.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
The best proof of love is trust.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
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.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.