Su Shi
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You can do what you want to do.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
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.
All-righty then !
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
They call me Mister Tibbs !
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Ideas... they have the power
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
These go to eleven.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
Fortune and love favor the brave.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Sanctuary !
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
The best way out is always through.
This is this.
But I would be proud.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Things do not change we change.
I'll have what she's having.
I saw and loved.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
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
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Love is a hole in the heart.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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 what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
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.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.