W. Mitchell
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
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An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
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.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Do it now !
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
My life is my message.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Talkers are no good doers.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Experience is the best teacher.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Believe in yourself.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Ability is sexless.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Help me ! Help me !
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
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.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.