Thomas Parnell
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Love the giver more than the gift.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
No pain, No gain.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
You're my Lassie come home.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Well done is better than well said.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Our love is here to stay.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mr. Christian !
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you love someone, set them free.
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.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.