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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Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The sun will come up tomorrow
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Never Quit.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Love is a verb.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Every dog has his day.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Love the giver more than the gift.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Love that is true never grows old.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Live with passion.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Come, let us make love deathless.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
No involvement, no commitment.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Never, never, never give up.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?