Frank Tebbetts
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Anything is possible.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
The dingo took my baby !
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Who's on first.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Love is the only rational act.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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.
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.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Love is a many splendered thing.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Love is friendship set to music
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Slow but steady wins the race.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Live life with passion.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.