Voltaire
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love those who love you.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Obstacles are great incentives.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
You complete me.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Hard work pays off.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Love knows no bounds.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Houston, we have a problem.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Be the best that you can be.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Go ahead, make my day.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.