Galileo Galilei
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
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.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
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.
Be who you are in every situation.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
High expectations are the key to everything.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
You become what you think about.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Love the giver more than the gift.
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.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Where's the rest of me ?
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
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.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Attitude determines altitude.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.