John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Love is a verb.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
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.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Non !
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Work is love made manifest.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Say hello to my little friend !
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
God doesn't make junk.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
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.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Ability is sexless.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Friendship is not born of words alone.