Steve Winwood
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
For with god all things are possible.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
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.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Love is a verb.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Ability is sexless.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
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.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Live your life and forget your age.