Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Live your dreams.
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.
The loving are the daring.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
A simple I love you means more than money.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
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.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
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.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
I don't like your manners.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Children are all foreigners.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Love is a great beautifier.
I'll have what she's having.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.