Peter Davies
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
You can do what you want to do.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Well done is better than well said.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Warriors, come out to play !
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
They're here !
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
I'm king of the world !
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
All mankind love a lover.
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.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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.
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.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
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.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.