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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Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
I ain't so tough.
Where there is love there is life.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Honor the ocean of love.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Mr. Christian !
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Be all you can be.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Who's on first.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Our love is here to stay.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Believe in yourself.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.