Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Every human heart is human.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
All-righty then !
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
They can because they think they can.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Don't water your weeds.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
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.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
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.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Remove failure as an option.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
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.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
Keep the Faith.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
The beginning is the half of every action.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
There is time for everything.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Love conquers all.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
To infinity and beyond !
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
They can because they think they can.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.