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We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.
I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
The best things in life are free
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.
The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It follows that to achieve a society in harmony with Nature, we must be guided by respect for it.
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
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.
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.
Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.
I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.
When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.
If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.
We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
I've never played for a draw in my life.
It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.
I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
Nothing comes sailing by itself.
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former
I am a part of all that I have met.
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
It's not worthy o human beings to give up.
Don't give advice unless you're asked.
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
Dreams are essential to life.
If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
