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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And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Can you dig it ?
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
Love those who love you.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Love is a verb.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
There is no substitute for hard work.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Attica ! Attica !
Do what you love and the money will follow
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
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.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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.
What hump ?
Love is something eternal.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.