Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Bring out the gimp.
It's always too soon to quit !
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Carpe diem.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Don't dream it be it.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
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Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Rosebud.
It's showtime !
Nothing succeeds like success.
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He who hesitates is lost.
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Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Above all to thine own self be true.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
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The cherokee people are not "my people".
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Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Help me ! Help me !
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
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