Rene Descartes
I think therefore I am
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The book you don't read cant help.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
You create your reality.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
One man with courage is a majority.
Where's the rest of me ?
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Don't quit.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Reach for the stars.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Follow the money.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
We'll always have Paris.
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.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Begin with the end in mind.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
You make me want to be a better man.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.