Elizabeth Von Arnim
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
I'll be back.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
They can because they think they can.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Show me the money !
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Live life to the fullest.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I want to be alone.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
I don't like your manners.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
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.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
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.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
It's good to be the king !
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.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.