Iranian Proverb
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
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It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
I'll have what she's having.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Carpe diem.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Forget about it.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
Give all to love.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
No man is wise enough by himself.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.