Elizabeth Bowen
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
You complete me.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
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There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Follow your dreams.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Well done is better than well said.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
We will either find a way or make one.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Practice makes perfect.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Roll with the punches.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
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.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
I saw and loved.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.