Smiley Blanton
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
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.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
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.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Ideas... they have the power
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Love is the only rational act.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
There is time for everything.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Love is the only gold.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Never stop dreaming.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
There are never enough I Love You's.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
They're called boobs, Ed.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Success is predictable.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
There are no gains without pains.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Here's Johnny !
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.