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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Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
How do you live ?
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
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'.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Live with passion !
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Love is the only rational act.
Hope springs eternal.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
In love beggar and king are equal.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Be the best that you can be.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
He who hesitates is lost !
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.