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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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.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
They're here !
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
I am your number one fan.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Honesty is the best image.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Love, two minds without a single thought.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
We belong dead.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Love that is true never grows old.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Somebody stop me !
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.