Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
The best proof of love is trust.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
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.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
You always succeed in producing a result.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
He who has hope has everything.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Love is not selfish.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Follow the money.
Great men are not always wise.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
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.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
One man with courage is a majority.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
We belong dead.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
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.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.