Heraclitus
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
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.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
We will either find a way or make one.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
You had me at "hello".
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
The show must go on.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Honor the ocean of love.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !