Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
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One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The road to success is always under construction.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Who's on first.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Listen, I have an update from Taako Central. I've updated my list of people I trust and things I believe to no one and nothing ! Not a joke, I don't trust you, half-pint, I don't trust Jeff from Today's Special, I don't trust Barold whatever-his-name - nobody, I trust nobody.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
After your jump, the net appears.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Success is never wondering what if.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.