William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Talkers are no good doers.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Above all to thine own self be true.
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The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
No wire hangers, ever !
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Never complain about what you permit.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
I want the fairy tale.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Practice makes perfect.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Whatever it takes !
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.