Sidonie Gabrielle
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Our intentions create our reality.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
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.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
The heart that loves is always young.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
May the Force be with you.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Fortune favors the brave.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I light my candle from their torches.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Live your dreams.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
There's no crying in baseball !
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
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.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
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.
Well, nobody's perfect.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
You can do what you want to do.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Follow your dreams.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Success is predictable.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Where there's life, there's hope.