Stephen Packer
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
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Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
If they move, kill ' em.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Whatever it takes !
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Must you flirt ?
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
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.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Live your dreams.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
I am the captain of my soul.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
You're as old as you behave.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
It's good to be the king !
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.