Richard Kuklinski
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.
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Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
I'll have what she's having.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
You had me at "hello".
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
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
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Vegas, baby.
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.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
I know you are, but what am I ?
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Forget about it.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Security is a kind of death.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.