Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
To know me is to love me.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
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.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
For with god all things are possible.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Love is the whole and more than all.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
Forget about it.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Experience is the best teacher.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.