Robert Burns
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
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It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Don't water your weeds.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
Every human heart is human.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Let thy words be few.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
There are simply too many notes.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
I saw and loved.
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.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Well, nobody's perfect.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You make me want to be a better man.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Seize the day.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Live with passion.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
The road to success is always under construction.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Every artist was first an amateur.
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.
Keep the Faith.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Help me ! Help me !
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.