Elizabeth Bowen
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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Love is friendship set to music
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
If you build it, he will come.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Vegas, baby.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Snap out of it !
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Act or accept.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Things do not change we change.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
We're sisters under the same mink.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Carpe diem.
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 ? '
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
They can because they think they can.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
In love beggar and king are equal.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
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.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Love is a great beautifier.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
To go fast, row slowly.