Elizabeth Bowen
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Do what you love and the money will follow
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
You had me at hello.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
You're as old as you behave.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Without a general an army is lost.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
May you live all the days of your life.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
There is no education like adversity.
How do I look ?
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Be Here Now.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
We're on a mission from God.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?