Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
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To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
After all, tomorrow is another day !
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Every human heart is human.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
I'm king of the world !
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
You sing-a high.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Success is the child of audacity.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Honor the ocean of love.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.