Mandy Forkner
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 !
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Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
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We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
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 !
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
There are never enough I Love You's.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Love is the only gold.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
You're as old as you behave.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Talkers are no good doers.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Non !
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
How do you live ?
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
This is the beginning of a new day.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
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.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Love knows no bounds.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Every dog has his day.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.