John Greenleaf Whittier
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Love is a great beautifier.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
The world belongs to the energetic.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Hope springs eternal.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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'.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
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 you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
They are able because they think they are able.
Believe in yourself.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
The heart that loves is always young.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Nature does nothing uselessly.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
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.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
My friends are my estate.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Mr. Christian !
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
All mankind love a lover.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
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.
To know me is to love me.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
It's never too late.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
The truth is more important than the facts.