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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.
You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.
Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?
You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.
There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.
If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.