Ingrid Bergman
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Love is the river of life in the world.
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.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
You make me want to be a better man.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Here's looking at you, kid.
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.
Reach for the stars.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Count your blessings.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Don't water your weeds.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Anything is possible.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
What's meant to be will always find a way
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You're as old as you behave.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.