Shira Tehrani
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The best things in life are not things.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
You can do what you want to do.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Open the pod bay doors,
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 listener does not hear. quotes
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Hunker down.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Attitude determines altitude.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
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.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Snap out of it !
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
To go fast, row slowly.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Here's looking at you, kid.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
May the Force be with you.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Hope springs eternal.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
How do I look ?