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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Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
My life is my message.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
I light my candle from their torches.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Hey, lady !
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Attitude is everything.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Let's go home, Debbie.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
The past does not equal the future.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
We can only learn to love by loving.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Follow your dreams.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Love that is true never grows old.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
But I would be proud.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Honor the ocean of love.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
It's showtime !
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team