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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Nothing can happen, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create something, or experience something that you wish to heal, create, or experience in order to be who you really are.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Independence is happiness.
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
The law of attraction says there are no limits and anything is possible. Your imagination has no limits, and anything is possible for you to imagine! Isn't it interesting that the law of attraction and your imagination say the same thing? Think about it. What's it telling you?
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
Leadership is action, not position
A bold onset is half the battle.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.
When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.
I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Impatience never commanded success.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!
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?
Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.
I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
I’m not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it’s on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
To feel controlled is to lose interest.
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
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.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will
Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.
Hope begins in the dark.
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
True creativity often starts where language ends.
I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.
