William Cowper
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
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I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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.
Let thy words be few.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
The book you don't read cant help.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
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.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
We'll always have Paris.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Yo, Adrian !
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
What is life without the radiance of love.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
The truth is more important than the facts.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Union gives strength.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.