Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
My heart is ever at your service.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Love is a hole in the heart.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
All you need is love.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
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.
Where's the rest of me ?
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
As if !
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
They can because they think they can.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
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.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
This too, shall pass.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Love is the river of life in the world.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We belong dead.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.