Czech Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
I want the fairy tale.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The beginning is the half of every action.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
I want to be alone.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
No wire hangers, ever !
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Love is letting go of fear.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it