Jerry Greenfield
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
All mankind love a lover.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Think and grow rich.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
I know you are, but what am I ?
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Know thyself.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Warriors, come out to play !
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Do you like scary movies ?
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
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.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
May you live all the days of your life.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Bond. James Bond.
No involvement, no commitment.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.