Emma Goldman
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
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Don't go through life, grow through life.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
One man with courage is a majority.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Don't quit.
I think we deserve a break.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
My friends are my estate.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
It ain't over till it's over.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Love is friendship set on fire.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.