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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Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
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.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
I see dead people.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Happiness is a choice.
Ideas without action are worthless.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You're as old as you behave.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
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.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
I saw and loved.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Don't quit.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Better late than never.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
All you need is love.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
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.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
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.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.