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Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.
Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage. Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost
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.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.
Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Happiness is a decision.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.
No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
If you care at all,you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that?
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.
Karaoke is the great equalizer.
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
I've never played for a draw in my life.
I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.
All they can talk about is Manchester United.
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
