Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
We're sisters under the same mink.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
They're called boobs, Ed.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
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.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
To go fast, row slowly.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Be the best that you can be.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Would you like to play a game ?
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Follow your dreams.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Good morning, Vietnam !
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Well done is better than well said.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.