Jean Anouilh
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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.'
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
A bold onset is half the battle.
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.
All you need is love.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
This too, shall pass.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
If they move, kill ' em.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
There is time for everything.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Keep the Faith.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You complete me.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
For Love is Immortality.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
One man with courage is a majority.
This is nothing !
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
You're good, you're very good.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Bring out the gimp.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
For with god all things are possible.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.