E.E. Cummings
Love is the whole and more than all.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No involvement, no commitment.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
No one became poor by giving alms.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Whatever it takes !
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Carpe diem.
You create your reality.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Yo, Adrian !
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
There's no crying in baseball !
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Be the best that you can be.
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.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Kind words conquer.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
My heart is ever at your service.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
How do I look ?
A simple I love you means more than money.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
How do you live ?
Security is a kind of death.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.