Smiley Blanton
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
I am the captain of my soul.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
They are able because they think they are able.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
There is no education like adversity.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Never, never, never give up.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
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.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
It's good to be the king !
Happiness is a choice.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
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.
Hey, lady !
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Love is the only gold.
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.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
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.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
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.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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.
We'll always have Paris.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.