Victor Cousins
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Discover More Quotes From Your Favorite Authors
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Don't dream it be it.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
It is always your next move.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
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.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
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.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
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 ?
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.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The road to success is always under construction.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
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.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Anything is possible.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Keep the Faith.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.