Eden Phillpotts
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Love conquers all.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
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.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The truth is more important than the facts.
What ever you are be a good one.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I'll have what she's having.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
No one became poor by giving alms.
You only get out what you put in.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
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.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
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.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
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.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Count your blessings.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Snap out of it !
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.