Lao Tse
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
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.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
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.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
You talkin to me ?
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
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.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Hope springs eternal.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
The dingo took my baby !
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Let thy words be few.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.