Thomas Szasz
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
High expectations are the key to everything.
What a dump.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
For with god all things are possible.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
One million dollars !
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
He who hesitates is lost.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Well done is better than well said.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Don't fear, just live right.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
To know me is to love me.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.