Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Kindness is always fashionable.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Count your blessings.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Truth fears no questions.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Whatever it takes !
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Happiness is a choice.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The best proof of love is trust.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for 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.
Don't think it, ink it.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Attica ! Attica !
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
There are simply too many notes.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
The best way out is always through.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Ability is sexless.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
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.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
They can because they think they can.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.