Dennis P. Kimbro
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
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.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Mr. Christian !
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
I'm king of the world !
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Be the best that you can be.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Anything is possible.
Faith can move mountains.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
If you build it, he will come.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.