Judith Viorst
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
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You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Remove failure as an option.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
All you need is love.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
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.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Live with passion.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Hard work pays off.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !