Joan Jett
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
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Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Our love is here to stay.
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.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Don't quit.
Love is a hole in the heart.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
They can because they think they can.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
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.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Change comes from within.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
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.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
There are simply too many notes.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
We have not yet begun to fight.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The show must go on.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Houston, we have a problem.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
The best things in life are not things.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.