Sandy Wilson
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
They can because they think they can.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
You become what you think about.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
These go to eleven.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Do you like scary movies ?
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
You make me want to be a better man.
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.
Never stop dreaming.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Hope springs eternal.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
I'm king of the world !
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.