A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
If you want to be happy, be.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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