J. Robert Oppenheimer
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Security is a kind of death.
Well done is better than well said.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Love is the only gold.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Would you like to play a game ?
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Yo, Adrian !
You always succeed in producing a result.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Love is a great beautifier.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Bond. James Bond.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
There's no crying in baseball !
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
You create your reality.
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'.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Love conquers all.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.