John Powell
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
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No pain, No gain.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Hunker down.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Success is predictable.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
You complete me.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
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.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
It's good to be the king !
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
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Love is not selfish.
Love that is true never grows old.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Our intentions create our reality.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
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Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.