Karen Casey
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
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Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
How do I look ?
Never Quit.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
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.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Warriors, come out to play !
The best things in life are free.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Things do not change we change.
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.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Somebody stop me !
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Let's go home, Debbie.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
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
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Actions speak louder than words.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
I am your father.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.