Montaigne
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.
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Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
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.
What is life without the radiance of love.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
As if !
Our love is here to stay.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Live your life and forget your age.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Fortune favors the brave.
You're good, you're very good.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Live your dreams.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Hey, lady !
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
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.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
You're tearing me apart !
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
I'll have what she's having.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Laughter is the best medicine.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.