Jerry Van Amerongen
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Somebody stop me !
In love beggar and king are equal.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
He who hesitates is lost !
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
I know that I will die laughing.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Where there is love there is life.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
They're here !
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Be the best that you can be.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Old love does not rust.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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."
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.