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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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Love is not selfish.
For Love is Immortality.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
These go to eleven.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The first duty of love is to listen.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.