Jeanne Moreau
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
There are simply too many notes.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Kind words conquer.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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.
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.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
You must motivate yourself every day.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
The book you don't read cant help.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Whatever it takes !
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
To infinity and beyond !
Never complain about what you permit.
Vegas, baby.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
We're on a mission from God.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
The road to success is always under construction.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
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 best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
You are what you think about all day long.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.