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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Rosebud.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
The buck stops here.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
God doesn't make junk.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
No involvement, no commitment.
Work is love made manifest.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
You become what you think about.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
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.