Marilyn Ferguson
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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 ?
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
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.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
If you build it, he will come.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Fiddle-dee-dee.
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.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Every dog has his day.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Attica ! Attica !
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 !
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Don't dream it be it.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
We will either find a way or make one.
Be Here Now.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Love conquers all.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
There are never enough I Love You's.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
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.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The best things in life are free.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.