Kahil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
I am the captain of my soul.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Don't think it, ink it.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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.
Success leaves clues.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
There are simply too many notes.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The time to make friends is before you need them.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We belong dead.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
I'm going to take a bath.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
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.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
You must motivate yourself every day.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Go ahead, make my day.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
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.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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