Su Shi
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
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.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Whatever you are be a good one.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
He who stops being better stops being good.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
For with god all things are possible.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
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.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Anything is possible.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.