Swedish Proverb
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Think and grow rich.
Whatever you are be a good one.
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.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Work is love made manifest.
Love is a verb.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Don't dream it be it.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
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.
Reach for the stars.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
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.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Love that is true never grows old.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
I know you are, but what am I ?
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
This is this.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Hunker down.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
For with god all things are possible.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.