It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
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.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Here's looking at you, kid.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
You complete me.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Never Quit.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
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.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
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.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Kind words conquer.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
The ready back gets all the loads.