Ikhide Oshoma
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
There's no crying in baseball !
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
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.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Don't water your weeds.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
You can do what you want to do.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.