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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Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
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.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
This is this.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
Can you dig it ?
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
None are homely who smile.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Don't quit.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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.
You complete me.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
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.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Snap out of it !
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !