Richard Carlson
Don't sweat the small stuff.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
All work is empty save when there is love.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Give all to love.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Love never claims, it ever gives.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
There is no substitute for hard work.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Attica ! Attica !
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
The best things in life are not things.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Never say more than is necessary.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
You are what you think you are.
My precious.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
If they move, kill ' em.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
I'll be back.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
It's showtime !
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
My friends are my estate.
Well done is better than well said.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it