Swedish Proverb
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
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I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
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.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
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 !
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
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.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
A woman who is loved always has success.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
The best proof of love is trust.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Roll with the punches.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
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.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Can you dig it ?
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Life is what you make it.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Love is something eternal.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Live life to the fullest.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.