Sherry Anderson
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
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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.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Open the pod bay doors,
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
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.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Whatever it takes !
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
What a dump.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
I don't like your manners.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Would you like to play a game ?
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
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 you feel you have no faults there's another one.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
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.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Talkers are no good doers.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
No man is wise enough by himself.
Attica ! Attica !
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
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.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.