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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
You're as old as you behave.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Hunker down.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
Never say more than is necessary.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
No matter where you go, there you are.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Well done is better than well said.
Never say die.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Without a general an army is lost.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
They alone live, who live for others.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Would you like to come in ?
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.