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The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.
There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.
With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.
No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.
If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.
So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.
Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.
It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.
Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.
If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.