Otomo No Yakamochi
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
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.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
To go fast, row slowly.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
What a dump.
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.
Nothing succeeds like success.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
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.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
They are able because they think they are able.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
For Love is Immortality.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
A simple I love you means more than money.
After your jump, the net appears.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
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
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Love the giver more than the gift.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Attitude is everything.