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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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Rosebud.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
He who hesitates is lost.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
You can do what you want to do.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Shut up and deal.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Actions speak louder than words.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Say hello to my little friend !
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
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.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Begin with the end in mind.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Roll with the punches.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
How do I look ?
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.