Plato
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I don't like your manners.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Do you like scary movies ?
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
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.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
There's no crying in baseball !
We rob banks.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
They are able because they think they are able.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
You only get out what you put in.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.