Jeanne Calment
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Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
But I would be proud.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
We will either find a way or make one.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
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.
Never, never, never give up.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
May the Force be with you.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
I'm king of the world !
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Never complain about what you permit.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.