Rumi
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.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
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.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Love is the only gold.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
You can do what you want to do.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
The show must go on.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Love conquers all.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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.
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.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
You are what you think you are.
Love is friendship set on fire.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
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.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Security is a kind of death.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
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.
Happiness is a state of activity.