Jacques Benigne Bossuel
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
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It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
They alone live, who live for others.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
We're sisters under the same mink.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Show me the money !
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There's no place like home.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The loving are the daring.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.