Ray Lyman Wilbur
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
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Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The truth is more important than the facts.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Love is a verb.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Don't ever give up.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
There's no place like home.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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 is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Love that is true never grows old.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Never Quit.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
You always succeed in producing a result.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.