Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Don't fear, just live right.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
What ever you are be a good one.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Obstacles are great incentives.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Change comes from within.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Love knows no bounds.
If you love someone, set them free.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
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.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
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.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
No matter where you go, there you are.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Be the best that you can be.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.