Walter Bagehot
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
I think we deserve a break.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Give all to love.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
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 !
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Think and grow rich.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The dingo took my baby !
Houston, we have a problem.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Love those who love you.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
How do I look ?
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I'm king of the world !
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Obstacles are great incentives.
They alone live, who live for others.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
You become what you think about.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.