Eden Phillpotts
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Actions speak louder than words.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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.
The book you don't read cant help.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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.
Things do not change we change.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
If they move, kill ' em.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Hard work pays off.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Anything is possible.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
All mankind love a lover.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.