Isaac Bashevis
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Don't quit.
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.
You had me at hello.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
You can do what you want to do.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Love understands all languages.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
I light my candle from their torches.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
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.
Live with passion !
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Keep away from small 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.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Live with passion.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
For with god all things are possible.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
The best proof of love is trust.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.