Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.
We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.
When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.
Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.
Love is always open arms.
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.
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