Japanese Proverb
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Love sees roses without thorns.
You become what you think about.
Well done is better than well said.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Must you flirt ?
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
You create your reality.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
One man with courage is a majority.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Let thy words be few.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
I see dead people.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The road to success is always under construction.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
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.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
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.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Keep away from small 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.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
My heart is ever at your service.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
They are able because they think they are able.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.