Leos Janacek
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
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Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
This too, shall pass.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
All you need is love.
The sun will come up tomorrow
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
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.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
There are simply too many notes.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
My life is my message.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Must you flirt ?
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Sanctuary !
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Here's looking at you, kid.
You had me at "hello".
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
But I would be proud.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Seize the day.