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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Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Live with passion.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Every dog has his day.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The best proof of love is trust.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
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.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Never spend your money before you have it.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I like to watch.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Only the educated are free.
Seize the day.
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All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
We rob banks.
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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
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There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.