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.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
What a dump.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
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.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
The best way out is always through.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Success is the child of audacity.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
They are able because they think they are able.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
A simple I love you means more than money.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.