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Success Quotes
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.
To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. Animportant attribute in successful people is their impatience with negativethinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates willchange. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want youto stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you tocrawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those thatdon't increase you will eventually decrease you.Consider this:Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problemswith someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those whonever succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone hasa right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of thebargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyonewho's not going anywhere.With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it. Be carefulwhere you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life. Wise is theperson who fortifies his life with the right friendships. If you run withwolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you associate with eagles, youwill learn how to soar to great heights."A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by thekind of friends he chooses."The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom youclosely associate - for the good and the bad.Note: Be not mistaken. This is applicable to family as well as friends.Yes...do love, appreciate and be thankful for your family, for they willalways be your family no matter what. Just know that they are human firstand though they are family to you, they may be a friend to someone else andwill fit somewhere in the criteria above."In Prosperity Our Friends Know Us. In Adversity We Know Our friends."Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."If you are going to achieve excellence in big things,you develop the habit in little matters.Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.."..
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Feet, what do I need them forIf I have wings to fly.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.
When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.
First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap.
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.
Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!
Beannacht / BlessingOn the day whenthe weight deadenson your shouldersand you stumble,may the clay danceto balance you.And when your eyesfreeze behindthe grey windowand the ghost of lossgets in to you,may a flock of colours,indigo, red, green,and azure bluecome to awaken in youa meadow of delight.When the canvas fraysin the currach of thoughtand a stain of oceanblackens beneath you,may there come across the watersa path of yellow moonlightto bring you safely home.May the nourishment of the earth be yours,may the clarity of light be yours,may the fluency of the ocean be yours,may the protection of the ancestors be yours.And so may a slowwind work these wordsof love around you,an invisible cloakto mind your life.
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
When the wind blows,the grass bends.
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only response to pain.Perhaps most important, I learned that everyone has a story – of dreams and nightmares, hope and heartache, love and loss, courage and fear, sacrifice and selfishness. All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. When I grew up into politics, I always felt the main point of my work was to people a chance to have better stories. - Page 15, Paragraph 5, ‘My Life’ by Bill Clinton. –Hard cover version-
Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture,an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's yours.
Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.
I will not die an unlived life.I will not live in fearof falling or catching fire.I choose to inhabit my days,to allow my living to open me,to make me less afraid,more accessible;to loosen my heartuntil it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.I choose to risk my significance,to live so that which came to me as seedgoes to the next as blossom,and that which came to me as blossom,goes on as fruit.
It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to fear; you can rule your world with blood and terror, that's true.But you can't win. And I know that. Weak as I am, with my imperfections and sins, even with all of my failing, I am stronger than you.I will soon have a body. And I have my agency now. I will increase in my faith and knowledge and power. I am not perfect, but I will be, and there's not a thing you can do! I will become like the Father if I follow the Son. You are powerless to stop me. You can threaten and tempt and whisper lies in my ear, but you can't stop me, Satan; I see that so clearly now! I can stop myslef, yes, but only if I follow you.And I reject you temptations. I reject your whispered lies. I reject you, Lucifer, and your entire plan. You have no power to control me. I am in control of myself. And try as you might, you won't control me on earth. We will defeat you in heaven, and we will deafeat you on earth. Here, or the earth, it doesn't matter; I am always stronger than you.
I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny. Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as a man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
Relationships Quotes
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it," I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course," I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What I write in my journal is that I am weak and full of fear. I explain that Depression and Loneliness have shown up, and I’m scared they will never leave. I say that I don’t want to take the drugs anymore, but I’m frightened I will have to. I am terrified that I will never really pull my life together. In response, somewhere from within me, rises a now-familiar presence, offering me all the certainties I have always wished another person would say to me when I was troubled. This is what I find myself writing on the page:I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and Braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. Tonight, this strange interior gesture of friendship—the lending of a hand fromme to myself when nobody else is around to offer solace—reminds me of something that happened to me once in New York City. I walked into an office building one afternoon in a hurry, dashed into the waiting elevator. As I rushed in, I caught an unexpected glance of myself in a security mirror’s reflection. In that moment, my brain did an odd thing—it fired off this split-second message: “Hey! You know her! That’s a friend of yours!” And I actually ran forward toward my own reflection with a smile, ready to welcome that girl whose name I had lost but whose face was so familiar. In a flash instant of course, I realized my mistake and laughed in embarrassment at my almost doglike confusion over how a mirror works. But for some reason that incident comes to mind again tonight during my sadness in Rome, and I find myself writing this comforting reminder at the bottom of the page. Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a FRIEND… I fell asleep holding my notebook pressed against my chest, open to this most recent assurance. In the morning when I wake up, I can still smell a faint trace of depression’s lingering smoke, but he himself is nowhere to be seen. Somewhere during the night, he got up and left. And his buddy loneliness beat it, too.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who weimagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. That each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction. Proposition, I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her and yet, I feel like something important has happened to me.
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not. As I wrote that farewell column to Marley, I realized it was all right there in front of us, if only we opened our eyes. Sometimes it took a dog with bad breath, worse manners, and pure intentions to help us see.
What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.
This is your life. Do what you want and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit.If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV.If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.Stop over-analysing, life is simple.All emotions are beautiful.When you eat, appreciate every last bite.Life is simple.Open your heart, mind and arms to new things and people, we are united in our differences.Ask the next person you see what their passion is and share your inspiring dream with them.Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.Some opportunities only come once, seize them.Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.Life is short, live your dream and wear your passion.
After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.
Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.
Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
The nights you fight best arewhen all the weapons are pointed at you,when all the voices hurl their insultswhile the dream is being strangled.The nights you fight best arewhen reason gets kicked in the gut,when the chariots of gloom encircle you.The nights you fight best arewhen the laughter of fools fills the air,when the kiss of death is mistaken for love.The nights you fight best arewhen the game is fixed,when the crowd screams for your blood.The nights you fight best areon a night like thisas you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain,as you rise up against the impossible,as you become a brother to the tender sister of joyand move on regardless.
If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul
Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy
Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life's secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose- the creation and the expression of WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Decide who you are- who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that.It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.If you think your life is about DOINGNESS, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living-and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you're BEING while you're doing whatever you're doing. It is a state of BEINGNESS the soul is after, not a state of doingness.
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.
Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.
You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
Don’t allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn’t suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.
Do what you love, think what you feel and live the way you want.
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle
So, have we solved the secret of happiness?"I believe so," he saidAre you going to tell me?"Yes.Ready?"Ready."Be satisfied."That's it?"Be greatful."That's it?"For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you."That's it?He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply."That's it.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop
You're not aloneTogether we standI'll be by your side, you know I'll take your handWhen it gets coldAnd it feels like the endThere's no place to goYou know I won't give in
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds away. Somehow she knew that you didn't get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered. She tried to slow her breathing, hoping somehow to make this moment last forever.
Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo".
Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.
If you are her man, she will talk to you until there justaren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’reat rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold youin her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’reup. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I meanreally loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty,encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’snot so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, evenwhen you’re not saying anything worth listening to.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.
Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!”“Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!”“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly.
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.
Real love never fails.
follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)
Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
The truth was this: Love is a decision.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
living eulogy.she danced.she sang. she took.she gave.she loved.she created.she dissented. she enlivened.she saw. she grew. she sweated.she changed.she learned. she laughed.she shed her skin.she bled on the pages of her days,she walked through walls,she lived with intention.
That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.
Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.
People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves.
All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.
I shrug, trapped. I don’t want to lose him. In spite of all his demands, his need to control, his scary vices. I have never felt as alive as I do now. It’s a thrill to be sitting here beside him. He’s so unpredictable, sexy, smart, and funny. But hismoods… oh – and he wants to hurt me. He says he’ll think about my reservations, but it still scares me. I close my eyes. What can I say? Deep down I would just like more, more affection, more playful Christian, more… love.
Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.
Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.
Advice to friends. Advice to fellow mothers in the same boat. "How do you do it all?" Crack a joke. Make it seem easy. Make everything seem easy. Make life seem easy and parenthood and marriage and freelancing for pennies, writing a novel and smiling after a rejection, keeping the faith after two, reminding oneself that four years of work counted for a lot, counted for everything. Make the bed. Make it nice. Make the people laugh when you sit down to write and if you can't make them laugh make them cry. Make them want to hug you or hold you or punch you in the face. Make them want to kill you or fuck you or be your friend. Make them change. Make them happy. Make the baby smile. Make him laugh. Make him dinner. Make him proud.Hold the phone, someone is on the other line. She says its important. People are dying. Children. Friends. Press mute because there is nothing you can say. Press off because you're running out of minutes. Running out of time. Soon he'll be grown up and you'll regret the time you spent pushing him away for one more paragraph in the manuscript no one will ever read. Put down the book, the computer, the ideas. Remember who you are now. Wait. Remember who you were. Wait. Remember what's important. Make a list. Ten things, no twenty. Twenty thousand things you want to do before you die but what if tomorrow never comes? No one will remember. No one will know. No one will laugh or cry or make the bed. No one will have a clue which songs to sing to the baby. No one will be there for the children. No one will finish the first draft of the novel. No one will publish the one that's been finished for months. No one will remember the thought you had last night, that great idea you forgot to write down.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.2. Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.3. Death ends a life, not a relationship.4. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.5. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you're falling.6. As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, its also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...
Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.
Energy comes not from your muscle neither from your heart. It comes from your inner source.
When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..
Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven of fear of hell, but because He is God.
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. How do I guess at the future? Based on the omens of the present. The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live ach day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Growth Quotes
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.
It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
I'm starting with the man in the mirror,I'm asking him to change his ways;And no message could have been any clearer,If you wanna make the world a better place,Take a look at yourself, and then make a change!
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
How are you coming with your home library? Do you need some good ammunition on why it's so important to read? The last time I checked the statistics...I think they indicated that only four percent of the adults in this country have bought a book within the past year. That's dangerous. It's extremely important that we keep ourselves in the top five or six percent. In one of the Monthly Letters from the Royal Bank of Canada it was pointed out that reading good books is not something to be indulged in as a luxury. It is a necessity for anyone who intends to give his life and work a touch of quality. The most real wealth is not what we put into our piggy banks but what we develop in our heads. Books instruct us without anger, threats and harsh discipline. They do not sneer at our ignorance or grumble at our mistakes. They ask only that we spend some time in the company of greatness so that we may absorb some of its attributes.You do not read a book for the book's sake, but for your own.You may read because in your high-pressure life, studded with problems and emergencies, you need periods of relief and yet recognize that peace of mind does not mean numbness of mind.You may read because you never had an opportunity to go to college, and books give you a chance to get something you missed. You may read because your job is routine, and books give you a feeling of depth in life.You may read because you did go to college.You may read because you see social, economic and philosophical problems which need solution, and you believe that the best thinking of all past ages may be useful in your age, too.You may read because you are tired of the shallowness of contemporary life, bored by the current conversational commonplaces, and wearied of shop talk and gossip about people.Whatever your dominant personal reason, you will find that reading gives knowledge, creative power, satisfaction and relaxation. It cultivates your mind by calling its faculties into exercise.Books are a source of pleasure - the purest and the most lasting. They enhance your sensation of the interestingness of life. Reading them is not a violent pleasure like the gross enjoyment of an uncultivated mind, but a subtle delight.Reading dispels prejudices which hem our minds within narrow spaces. One of the things that will surprise you as you read good books from all over the world and from all times of man is that human nature is much the same today as it has been ever since writing began to tell us about it.Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.
Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regime or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart. Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to your soul is to stop fighting with life--to stop fighting when things fall apart; when they don't go our away, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
Everytime I plant a seed,he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn’t mean it’s not there, that it doesn’t affect you and the choices you make in your life.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.
So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.
Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us—every man, woman, and child—and with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable of…the feat….You must learn to stop being yourself. That’s where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you feel your soul pouring out of you, and then shut your eyes. That’s how it’s done. The emptiness inside your body grows lighter than the air around you. Little by little, you begin to weigh less than nothing. You shut your eyes; you spread your arms; you let yourself evaporate. And then, little by little, you lift yourself off the ground.Like so.
Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.
Challenges Quotes
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.
being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.
My CreedI do not choose to be a common man,It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,I seek opportunity … not security.I do not wish to be a kept citizen.Humbled and dulled by having theState look after me.I want to take the calculated risk;To dream and to build.To fail and to succeed.I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;I prefer the challenges of lifeTo the guaranteed existence;The thrill of fulfillmentTo the stale calm of Utopia.I will not trade freedom for beneficenceNor my dignity for a handoutI will never cower before any masterNor bend to any threat.It is my heritage to stand erect.Proud and unafraid;To think and act for myself,To enjoy the benefit of my creationsAnd to face the world boldly and say:This, with God’s help, I have doneAll this is what it meansTo be an Entrepreneur.
Wisdom Quotes
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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
You never fail until you stop trying.
You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!
Try a little harder to be a little better.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Atticus, he was real nice."Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
If you want to be happy, be.
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
There is a way to be good again...
If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
Fake it 'till you make it.
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did.
Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.
There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such
I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.
Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.
He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
the time is always right to do the right thing
Bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu.
Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
Maktub" (It is written.)
Well done is better than well said.
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Know thyself.
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Nothing will work unless you do.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore)If you have to dry the dishes('Stead of going to the store)If you have to dry the dishesAnd you drop one on the floorMaybe they won't let youDry the dishes anymore
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.
Anything is possible. Anything can be.
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.
We dance round in a ring and suppose,But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires
Dream, Dream DreamDreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
Life is wasted on the living.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Life begins on the other side of despair.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Collective madness is called sanity ..
Do not dare not to dare.
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Normalness leads to sadness.
You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
I am the captain of my soul.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.
Words save our lives, sometimes.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.
Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.
It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
To those who will see, the world waits.
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
You could do a lot worse.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Always be yourself, there's no one better!
Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
Someday is now.
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
What hurts us is what heals us
The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...
You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.
Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.--Alexander Supertramp, May 1992
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found. On my journeys I've seen more joy in the slums of Mumbai and the orphanages of Africa than in wealthy gated communities and on sprawling estates worth millions. Why is that? You'll find contentment when your talents and passion are completely engaged, in full force. Recognise instant self-gratification for what it is. Resist the temptation to grab for material objects like the perfect house, the coolest clothes or the hottest car. The if I just had X, I would be happy syndrome is a mass delusion. When you look for happiness in mere objects, they are never enough. Look around. Look within.
If you are a dreamer come in
It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.-Roger Sullivan
I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
To write is human, to edit is divine.
Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.
The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.
Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)
And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.
Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.
You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all...
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
They alone live, who live for others.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Kung matatakot kang harapin ang totoo at sabihin ang talagang nararamdaman mo dahil baka masaktan ka, isa lang ibig sabihin noon: ipinagkait mo na sa sarili mo ang pagiging masaya at kinarir mo ang magpakatanga.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.
Let's start a new tomorrow, today.
If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.
What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
the purpose of life is the life of purpose
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct
impossible is not a word
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.
So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.
The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
I do like the world quite a lot.
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
But there's always a first time for everything
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.
The wise warrior avoids the battle.
Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now
I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
when you're cool for twenty,you get paid for twenty-one.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz
Never follow the crowd.
We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
I feel infinite.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they’re not alone, that they’re actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
Sad stories make good books
For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.
Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
Don't forget your history nor your destiny
When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that’s when he won’t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.
This is who the fuck I am.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.
Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.
Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.Our stories can set us free...When we set them free.
Now don't you understand man universal lawWhat you throw out comes back to you, starNever underestimate those who you scarCause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard
a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy
The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
Only children believe they're capable of everything.
We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?
kenangan itu cuma hantu di sudut pikir. selama kita diam dan ngga berbuat apa-apa, selamanya dia tetap jadi hantu, ngga akan pernah jadi kenyataan.
feminism is for everybody
To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.
You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
Exuberance is beauty.
Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
Time to toss the dice
Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.
Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
Live your life, no matter what that life is.
you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
Man is, that he may have Joy.
Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
Tough times never last. Tough people do
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here, this here, is what a man can do if he puts his mind to it and his back in it. Stop sniveling,’ [the land] said. ‘Stop picking around the edges of the world. Take advantage, and if you can’t take advantage, take disadvantage. We live here. On this planet, in this nation, in this county right here. Nowhere else! We got a home in this rock, don’t you see! Nobody starving in my home; nobody crying in my home, and if I got a home you got one too! Grab it. Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on – can you hear me? Pass it on!
I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
take what you can from your dreamsMake them real as anythingIt takes the work out of the courage
Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.
A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.
When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere
The warrior is Here, Now.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big
Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
Man made God in his own image...
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?
The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes
America is too great for small dreams.
She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.
All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19
The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.
You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
Fear is a natural emotion in life, but you cannot let it dictate your actions. When you act out of fear, you will only meet failure. But act out of determination to conquer that fear, and you will succeed at anything. Maybe not the first time, or the second or third, but eventually—as long as you keep trying—you can conquer your fears and succeed.
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely
Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog." This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one.
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
If we constantly focus only on the stones in our mortal path, we willalmost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by theloving Father who outlined our journey. Each day can bring more joythan sorrow when our mortal and spiritual eyes are open to God'sgoodness. Joy in the gospel is not something that begins only in thenext life. It is our privilege now, this very day. We must never allowour burdens to obscure our blessings. There will always be moreblessings than burdens--even if some days it doesn't seem so. Jesussaid, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have itmore abundantly." Enjoy those blessings right now. They are yours andalways will be.
You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
What other people think of me is not my business.
Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.
cause when there's life there's still hope
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.