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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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
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.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
You complete me.
As if !
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
They're here !
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
I want the fairy tale.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
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.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Never stop dreaming.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Begin with the end in mind.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Believe in yourself.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.