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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The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
I think we deserve a break.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Change comes from within.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Sanctuary !
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Don't think it, ink it.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Laughter is the best medicine.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
They can because they think they can.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
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.
Can you dig it ?
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
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.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
You become what you think about.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Begin with the end in mind.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Rosebud.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Non !
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.