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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Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
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.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Never say more than is necessary.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
He who hesitates is lost.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
I think therefore I am
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
You complete me.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
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. Discover.
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 listener does not hear. quotes
All you need is love.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Go ahead, make my day.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
It's always too soon to quit !
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.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
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.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
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.
Where there's life, there's hope.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.