To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Real love stories never have endings.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
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.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
All work is empty save when there is love.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
There are no gains without pains.
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.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
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.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
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.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Keep away from small 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 only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Roll with the punches.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Believe in yourself.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
It's never too late.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
To infinity and beyond !
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
There's no place like home.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.