Emma Goldman
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
We're sisters under the same mink.
High expectations are the key to everything.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
I see dead people.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Let's roll.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Always do the right thing.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Our love is here to stay.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Whatever it takes !
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
There is no education like adversity.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
It's showtime !
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
They can because they think they can.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Be the best that you can be.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.