J.M. Barrie
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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Live life with passion.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
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.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
There is no substitute for hard work.
No man is wise enough by himself.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
You complete me.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
In love beggar and king are equal.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Love like there is no tomorrow.
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.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Adventure is worthwhile.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Never say more than is necessary.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.