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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Work is love made manifest.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Whatever you are be a good one.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
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 toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
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.
We will either find a way or make one.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Love is a many splendered thing.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Carpe diem.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Love is perfect kindness
Must you flirt ?
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
You can do what you want to do.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Seize the day.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
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.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
My precious.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.