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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You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The show must go on.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Never stop dreaming.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Act or accept.
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.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
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.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
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.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
It's never too late.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Action is the antidote to despair.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.