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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Take time today to pause every now and then, take a deep breath of that moment, and know that God loves you. He will whisper "I love you" in a 1000 different ways.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
Greatness doesn’t come from what you do, but from who you are.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.
Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?
It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
You are not making the change because you are a bad person and you are doing it wrong. You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
I live in a loving, abundant, harmonious universe, and I am grateful.
