Samuel Beckett
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
The best things in life are not things.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Laughter is the best medicine.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Don't dream it be it.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
If you love someone, set them free.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Happiness is a choice.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.