George Sands
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
To infinity and beyond !
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
The road to success is always under construction.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Forget about it.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
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.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Let thy words be few.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
The best things in life are free.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Whatever you are be a good one.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Talkers are no good doers.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Honesty is the best image.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
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.