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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
There are never enough I Love You's.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
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.
Love is letting go of fear.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
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.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Obstacles are great incentives.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Hope springs eternal.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Find the good -- and praise it.
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.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Many hands make light work.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
You're tearing me apart !
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
As if !
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
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.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Warriors, come out to play !
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
You must motivate yourself every day.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.