Theodore Roethke
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Success is a journey not a destination.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
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.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
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.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Well done is better than well said.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
All-righty then !
He who hesitates is lost.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
There's no crying in baseball !
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
They alone live, who live for others.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Kind words conquer.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Always do the right thing.
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.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Don't dream it be it.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.