Eli Cohen
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
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.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Happiness is a state of activity.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
I don't like your manners.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
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.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Give all to love.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Only the educated are free.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Union gives strength.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Actions speak louder than words.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
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.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
One million dollars !
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Truth fears no questions.
The book you don't read cant help.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.