Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Be the ball.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Old love does not rust.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Do it now !
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Follow the money.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
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.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
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.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
You make me want to be a better man.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Here's Johnny !
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
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.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Love that is true never grows old.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.