Roy Goodman
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
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.
They're called boobs, Ed.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
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 !
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
As if !
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.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
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.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Success is never wondering what if.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Bring out the gimp.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
There's no place like home.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.