J.M. Barrie
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
You talkin to me ?
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Don't water your weeds.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
If you build it, he will come.
Laughter is the best medicine.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
No matter where you go, there you are.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Success is predictable.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
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.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
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.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
Come, let us make love deathless.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
All-righty then !
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
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.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Hunker down.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Ability is sexless.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
After your jump, the net appears.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.