Milan Kundera
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
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If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
They're here !
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
They alone live, who live for others.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Love is friendship set on fire.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Love is a great beautifier.
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
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.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Anything is possible.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
My precious.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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 have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
The book you don't read cant help.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
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.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Union gives strength.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.