John Burroughs
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Love understands all languages.
For Love is Immortality.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Mac, you ever been in love ?
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You betcha !
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Love is perfect kindness
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The best proof of love is trust.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
I think therefore I am
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
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
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
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.