Muriel Spark
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
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You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
You become what you think about.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
I see dead people.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You become what you think about.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
To know me is to love me.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Honor the ocean of love.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Be all you can be.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Talkers are no good doers.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.