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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Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Things do not change we change.
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.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
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
Show me the money !
But I would be proud.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Bring out the gimp.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
They alone live, who live for others.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Would you like to come in ?
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Hunker down.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The time is always right to do what is right.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
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.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Follow your dreams.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
The best things in life are not things.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
To know me is to love me.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Faith can move mountains.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
If you love someone, set them free.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Attica ! Attica !
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.