Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Practice makes perfect.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Great men are not always wise.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Follow the money.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
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.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Seize the day.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Count your blessings.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
I'm king of the world !
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Experience is the best teacher.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
All you need is love.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
All-righty then !