James Oppenheim
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
Your attitude determines your altitude.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Follow the money.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
If you wanna call me that, smile.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Work is love made manifest.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
You're good, you're very good.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
We rob banks.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
My heart is ever at your service.
The best proof of love is trust.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
The beginning is the half of every action.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
They can because they think they can.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.