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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Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Truth fears no questions.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
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.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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.
Be Here Now.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The first duty of love is to listen.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Honesty is the best image.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
It's showtime !
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
The dingo took my baby !
Hope springs eternal.
Vegas, baby.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
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
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Mr. Christian !
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Go ahead, make my day.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.