W. Somerset Maugham
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
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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.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Work is love made manifest.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Love understands all languages.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.