Khalil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The world belongs to the energetic.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
The past does not equal the future.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
My friends are my estate.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
They're here !
Bond. James Bond.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Experience is the best teacher.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
We will either find a way or make one.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Carpe diem.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Be Here Now.
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.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
You complete me.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Act or accept.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
The sun will come up tomorrow
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.