Vaclav Havel
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Live with passion.
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.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
You complete me.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
The best way out is always through.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
You complete me.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Carpe diem.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Never, never, never give up.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The show must go on.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The world belongs to the energetic.
I like to watch.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The best things in life are free.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
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.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Act or accept.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.