Su Shi
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
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Don't sweat the small stuff.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Reach for the stars.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The loving are the daring.
Every human heart is human.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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.
Kind words conquer.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Give all to love.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
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.
Keep the Faith.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Snap out of it !
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Experience is the best teacher.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
There are never enough I Love You's.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
I'll have what she's having.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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.
Happiness is a choice.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.