Gilbert K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
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Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
All you need is love.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Love is the only gold.
Love knows no bounds.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
There's no crying in baseball !
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Hey, lady !
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.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
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.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I don't like your manners.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
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.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Real love stories never have endings.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Eddie, you're a born loser.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Must you flirt ?
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.