Jacques Benigne Bossuel
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
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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.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Houston, we have a problem.
Where there is love there is life.
I am your number one fan.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
If you build it, he will come.
There is no education like adversity.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Real love stories never have endings.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
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.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
After your jump, the net appears.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You are what you think about all day long.
Strike while the iron is hot.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
I'm an excellent driver.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
How far you go in life depends on you 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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Keep away from 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.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
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Live with passion.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.