Denis Diderot
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
I'm going to take a bath.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Our love is here to stay.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
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.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Hunker down.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Don't water your weeds.
The first duty of love is to listen.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
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.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Live life to the fullest.
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.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Hope springs eternal.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
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.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
How do you live ?
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.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Love conquers all.