Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The best way out is always through.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The loving are the daring.
Better late than never.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
There's no place like home.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The book you don't read cant help.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
If you build it, he will come.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Happiness is a choice.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
How do I look ?
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
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.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The best way out is always through.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Listen, I have an update from Taako Central. I've updated my list of people I trust and things I believe to no one and nothing ! Not a joke, I don't trust you, half-pint, I don't trust Jeff from Today's Special, I don't trust Barold whatever-his-name - nobody, I trust nobody.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
I'm king of the world !
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.