Edward Bulwer Lytton
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Don't dream it be it.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
For with god all things are possible.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
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.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
No matter where you go, there you are.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Can you dig it ?
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.