Paul R. Ehrlich
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You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
I like to watch.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Without a general an army is lost.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Without music, life would be a mistake.
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.
The buck stops here.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Actions speak louder than words.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
The book you don't read cant help.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
We will either find a way or make one.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
I ain't so tough.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
No wire hangers, ever !
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
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.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
You're as old as you behave.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.