Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Action is the antidote to despair.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
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.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
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.
There are never enough I Love You's.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Be who you are in every situation.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Well done is better than well said.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Make the second effort your second nature.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
I want to be alone.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
You had me at "hello".
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
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.
How do you live ?
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
To know me is to love me.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.