Joseph Joubert
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
If you build it, he will come.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Love is something eternal.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
They're called boobs, Ed.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
To ask the hard question is simple.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
You had me at "hello".
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Hope springs eternal.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
I am the captain of my soul.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Make the second effort your second nature.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Vegas, baby.