William Blake
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
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Your talent is god's gift to you.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Happiness is a choice.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Love conquers all.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Do you like scary movies ?
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
There are simply too many notes.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Our love is here to stay.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
This too, shall pass.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Talkers are no good doers.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
There is time for everything.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
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.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
It is always your next move.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Live with passion.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Change comes from within.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
You're as old as you behave.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
No involvement, no commitment.