Neal A. Maxwell
Don't fear, just live right.
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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
If you love someone, set them free.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Here's looking at you, kid.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
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.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Love is a verb.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The ready back gets all the loads.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
You become what you think about.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Love is friendship set to music
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Love sees roses without thorns.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Love knows no bounds.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.