Zen Proverb
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
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.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Don't water your weeds.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
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.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Count your blessings.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Success is a journey not a destination.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
How do you live ?
No involvement, no commitment.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Things do not change we change.
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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.