Robin St. John
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
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The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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.
Don't think it, ink it.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Live life with passion.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
The past does not equal the future.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
You create your reality.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Ideas... they have the power
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
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
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
What hump ?
There is time for everything.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
You are what you think about all day long.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.