Oscar Wilde
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
You become what you think about.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Listen, I have an update from Taako Central. I've updated my list of people I trust and things I believe to no one and nothing ! Not a joke, I don't trust you, half-pint, I don't trust Jeff from Today's Special, I don't trust Barold whatever-his-name - nobody, I trust nobody.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
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.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
I'm king of the world !
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
If you build it, he will come.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Live life with passion.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
There are simply too many notes.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
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.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
You complete me.
Shut up and deal.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
My heart is ever at your service.
What is life without the radiance of love.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.