Lord Chesterfield
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
The best way out is always through.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
I saw and loved.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
All mankind love a lover.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Success leaves clues.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
How do I look ?
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Kind words conquer.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
If you build it, he will come.
He who stops being better stops being good.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The best way out is always through.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Sanctuary !