Steve Walton
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
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The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Love is perfect kindness
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Ideas... they have the power
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
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.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Say hello to my little friend !
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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.
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.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.