George William Curtis
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
This is the beginning of a new day.
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.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Only the educated are free.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
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.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Know thyself.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
You are what you think about all day long.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
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.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
This too, shall pass.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.