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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
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.
We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.
Spirituality is impacted not only by remembrance but by diet, stress, sleeping and eating habits among other things. Take care of yourself.
You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.
But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.
When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.
Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
I don't really watch too many movies, but I try to watch inspirational pieces about other musicians. Musical documentaries truly inspire me.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
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.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.
Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.
Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.
...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience.
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.