Robert Herrick
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
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I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
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Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Truth fears no questions.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Let's go home, Debbie.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Love is perfect kindness
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Love the giver more than the gift.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Houston, we have a problem.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Never stop dreaming.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
One man with courage is a majority.
You're good, you're very good.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Ideas... they have the power
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
It is always your next move.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.