Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
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.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Shut up and deal.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
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.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
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.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The loving are the daring.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
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.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Help me ! Help me !
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.