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Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.
If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
All of our dreams can come true...
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.
"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Success is not a destination, it's a journey.
After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
By the work one knows the workman.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.
Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life
It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.
Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.
No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
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 world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear.
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
