Jim Croce
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
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Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Talkers are no good doers.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Live life to the fullest.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
They alone live, who live for others.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
He who hesitates is lost !
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Seize the day.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
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Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
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.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
But I would be proud.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.