Marcel Proust
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
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Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
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.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
To go fast, row slowly.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
It's showtime !
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
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.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
How do you live ?
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
It's always too soon to quit !
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
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.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
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.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Security is a kind of death.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.