Heraclitus
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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Rosebud.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Be all you can be.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
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.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Live your life and forget your age.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The best things in life are free.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
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.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Success leaves clues.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
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.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Warriors, come out to play !
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.