Erica Jong
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
What's meant to be will always find a way
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
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.
After your jump, the net appears.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Our intentions create our reality.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The world belongs to the energetic.
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.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Warriors, come out to play !
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Well done is better than well said.
Don't think it, ink it.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Every human heart is human.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If you love someone, set them free.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Love is a great beautifier.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
This is nothing !
Sanctuary !
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Love is not selfish.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Do or do not, there is no try.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Hey, lady !
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?