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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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Rosebud.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
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.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Be who you are in every situation.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The buck stops here.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Kind words conquer.
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.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Love is perfect kindness
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.