P.A.C. de Beaumarchais
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
You sing-a high.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Change comes from within.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Our intentions create our reality.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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.
Don't ever give up.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Honesty is the best image.
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.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
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.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
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.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
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 ?
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Bring out the gimp.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Love is the whole and more than all.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
It's showtime !
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.