Mary Parrish
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
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 ?'
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
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.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
They can because they think they can.
Live life to the fullest.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Good morning, Vietnam !
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
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.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
There is no substitute for hard work.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.