J.M. Power
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
One man with courage is a majority.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I want to be alone.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
They are able because they think they are able.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
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.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your 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.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
They're here !
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.