Woody Allen
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
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Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Talkers are no good doers.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
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.
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.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
The first duty of love is to listen.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
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.
It's never too late.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Obstacles are great incentives.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Real love stories never have endings.
Go ahead, make my day.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
No involvement, no commitment.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.