Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
All-righty then !
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
I think therefore I am
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Don't water your weeds.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Ideas without action are worthless.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Laughter is the best medicine.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
These go to eleven.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
You are what you think about all day long.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The best way out is always through.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.