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Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.
Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.
Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Unfortunately the ppl who would do the most good w/ a large sum of $ are often the same ppl who have the biggest hang ups about making $.
You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe Vitale)
Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.
Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood.
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.
It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.