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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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Great men are not always wise.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Give all to love.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The beginning is the half of every action.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
All mankind love a lover.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
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.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.