Joan Baez
Action is the antidote to despair.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The ready back gets all the loads.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Hey, lady !
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Would you like to play a game ?
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
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.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
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.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
Live with passion.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
If you can dream it, you can do it.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.