Robert Browning
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Action is the antidote to despair.
This too, shall pass.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Bond. James Bond.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Roll with the punches.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
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.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Forget about it.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Where's the rest of me ?
God doesn't make junk.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Many hands make light work.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
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
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Happiness is a choice.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Well done is better than well said.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Be who you are in every situation.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
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.
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're so money, and you don't even know it.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.