Mary Parrish
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
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I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
There is time for everything.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The truth is more important than the facts.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Never say more than is necessary.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Love is friendship set to music
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
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.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
To go fast, row slowly.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
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.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Fortune favors the brave.
The best things in life are not things.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Well, nobody's perfect.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The best way out is always through.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Attitude determines altitude.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.