Mary Parrish
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
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Good morning, Vietnam !
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
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
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
You had me at hello.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Live life with passion.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
You're my Lassie come home.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
There's no crying in baseball !
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Don't ever give up.
No matter where you go, there you are.
There is no education like adversity.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
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.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.