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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Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Don't ever give up.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
We have not yet begun to fight.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Well, nobody's perfect.
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.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Success leaves clues.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Actions speak louder than words.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
My heart is ever at your service.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.