Thomas Moore
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
I ain't so tough.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Kind words conquer.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Success is the child of audacity.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Attica ! Attica !
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
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.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
My friends are my estate.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Be who you are in every situation.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Ideas... they have the power
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
The course of true love never did run smooth.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Give all to love.
There are simply too many notes.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
It is always your next move.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Roll with the punches.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
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.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.