Ray Norda
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The best things in life are free.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
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.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
This is nothing !
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
I think we deserve a break.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
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 ?
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
I like to watch.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Practice makes perfect.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Can you dig it ?
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The first duty of love is to listen.
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.
My heart is ever at your service.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.