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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Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Would you like to play a game ?
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
It's showtime !
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Rosebud.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Never stop dreaming.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
There's no crying in baseball !
You become what you think about.
Snap out of it !
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Love is the river of life in the world.
If you would create something, you must be something.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
The dingo took my baby !
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
I think we deserve a break.
Let thy words be few.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.