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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I light my candle from their torches.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
You're tearing me apart !
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
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.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The best things in life are not things.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
If you would create something, you must be something.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
This is nothing !
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
Carpe diem.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Open the pod bay doors,
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
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.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The dingo took my baby !
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.