Jeremy Taylor
Love is friendship set on fire.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
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.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
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.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
It's always too soon to quit !
Whatever it takes !
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
I want the fairy tale.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
All work is empty save when there is love.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
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.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
May the Force be with you.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Do it now !
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Be the best that you can be.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
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Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
If you love someone, set them free.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.