Randolph Ray
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Live your dreams.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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 listener does not hear. quotes
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Bring out the gimp.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Don't ever give up.
Love is the river of life in the world.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
We're sisters under the same mink.