William Wordsworth
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
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Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
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.
The sun will come up tomorrow
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.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
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.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
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.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Never spend your money before you have it.
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.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Never say die.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
They can because they think they can.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
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.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
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.
Love is the only gold.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
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.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Shut up and deal.
Sanctuary !
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Love is the river of life in the world.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.