John Lubbock
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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I'll have what she's having.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
You complete me.
You had me at "hello".
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The road to success is always under construction.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
If they move, kill ' em.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Fortune favors the brave.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
I'll be back.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Security is a kind of death.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Count your blessings.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Carpe diem.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
All-righty then !
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
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.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
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
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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.
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.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.