John Wicker
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
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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.
You had me at "hello".
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Let's roll.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
You can observe a lot just by watching.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
I light my candle from their torches.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Must you flirt ?
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Don't fear, just live right.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Whatever you are be a good one.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Many hands make light work.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
I don't like your manners.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The sun will come up tomorrow
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.