Vicki Baum
A woman who is loved always has success.
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The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
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.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
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.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Security is a kind of death.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
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.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
There's no place like home.
Anything is possible.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I'll have what she's having.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
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 ?
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
After your jump, the net appears.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
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.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Love the giver more than the gift.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
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.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
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.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.