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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Listen, I have an update from Taako Central. I've updated my list of people I trust and things I believe to no one and nothing ! Not a joke, I don't trust you, half-pint, I don't trust Jeff from Today's Special, I don't trust Barold whatever-his-name - nobody, I trust nobody.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Fortune favors the brave.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
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
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
There's no crying in baseball !
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Here's looking at you, kid.
It ain't over till it's over.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.