German Proverb
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Love sees roses without thorns.
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Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Don't think it, ink it.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Snap out of it !
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Say hello to my little friend !
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Always do the right thing.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
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 !
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
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.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
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.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Non !
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
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.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Don't ever give up.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
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.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
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.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
My heart is ever at your service.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.