Pearl Buck
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
The cherokee people are not "my people".
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Success is never wondering what if.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
You're my Lassie come home.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
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.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
It ain't over till it's over.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
You're tearing me apart !
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
I'll have what she's having.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
I see dead people.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Hey, lady !
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
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?
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
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 first duty of love is to listen.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
The time is always right to do what is right.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.