Judy Garland
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
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.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Love those who love you.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
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.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Above all to thine own self be true.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Do you like scary movies ?
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Be the ball.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
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.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
This is nothing !
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I think therefore I am
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Success is the child of audacity.
Begin with the end in mind.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.