Jane Austen
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
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Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Forget about it.
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.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Things do not change we change.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
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.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
He who hesitates is lost !
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
My heart is ever at your service.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.