Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
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Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
We rob banks.
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.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Things do not change we change.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The show must go on.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Live your life and forget your age.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
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.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Every dog has his day.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
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.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Change comes from within.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
You become what you think about.
There are never enough I Love You's.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.