Guillaume Apollinaire
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I saw and loved.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
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.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
What ever you are be a good one.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Don't dream it be it.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
It's always too soon to quit !
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
If there is a will, there is a way.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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.
Act or accept.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Never spend your money before you have it.
You only get out what you put in.
Be all you can be.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.