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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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
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.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
They alone live, who live for others.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Success leaves clues.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Help me ! Help me !
Love the giver more than the gift.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
A simple I love you means more than money.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Love is the only gold.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
I'm going to take a bath.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
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.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.