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 can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Do you like scary movies ?
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
For with god all things are possible.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
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.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
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.
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.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
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.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Love is the river of life in the world.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
As if !
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
One man with courage is a majority.
Kind words conquer.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
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.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !