Leo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
May you live all the days of your life.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
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.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
We will either find a way or make one.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
No one became poor by giving alms.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Life is what you make it.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Whatever it takes !
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Love is a many splendered thing.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
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 ?'
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.