D.H. Lawrence
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Love is the only rational act.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
There are no gains without pains.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Somebody stop me !
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
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.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
We're on a mission from God.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Always do the right thing.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.