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Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to the exact degree that you deliberately increase your good thoughts, good words, and good actions. I've found in my life that the easiest way to increase my joy is to religiously practice gratitude until I'm a gratitude machine!
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.
All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.
And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.
Enthusiasm moves the world.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that?
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.
What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.
Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
I am the person you'll see everyday training when everyone else has gone home. I live for the one moment of glory when I save that goal or sink that 3-point shot and score the winning basket. I am the sport, I am the glory, nothing can change that. I am an athlete, no one can forget that.
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.
You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
Every one starts out being an atheist.
