P.A.C. de Beaumarchais
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
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.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I know you are, but what am I ?
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Love is a many splendered thing.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Carpe diem.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
There is time for everything.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.