Theodore Roethke
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
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My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Reach for the stars.
Happiness is a choice.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
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.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Faith can move mountains.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Bring out the gimp.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
It's always too soon to quit !
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
I am the captain of my soul.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
We belong dead.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Here's Johnny !
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
To go fast, row slowly.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.