Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
May all beings have happy minds.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what's right for you.
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
The beginning is always today.
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
— Molière
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
— Chanakya
Never promise more than you can perform.
Your friend is your needs answered.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
— Ovid
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
— Laozi
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
— Horace
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
— Sai Baba
And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
— Laozi
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
— Plutarch
Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.