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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Live with passion !
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Good morning, Vietnam !
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
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'.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Listen, I have an update from Taako Central. I've updated my list of people I trust and things I believe to no one and nothing ! Not a joke, I don't trust you, half-pint, I don't trust Jeff from Today's Special, I don't trust Barold whatever-his-name - nobody, I trust nobody.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Help me ! Help me !
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Slow but steady wins the race.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
There's no abiding success without commitment.