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The best proof of love is trust.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
The best way out is always through.
Act or accept.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
There are simply too many notes.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Do or do not, there is no try.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
I'll be back.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
The loving are the daring.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Old love does not rust.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Here's looking at you, kid.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
None are homely who smile.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.