Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
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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.
They can because they think they can.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I am your father.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ideas... they have the power
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Our intentions create our reality.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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 ?
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Honesty is the best image.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
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.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Live your dreams.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
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.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
My friends are my estate.