Phyllis Diller
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Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Every human heart is human.
Every dog has his day.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Ability is sexless.
For with god all things are possible.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
It's always too soon to quit !
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The heart that loves is always young.
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.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
This is this.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Success is the child of audacity.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
No wire hangers, ever !
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
May you live all the days of your life.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.