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A smile is a light in the window of your face to show your heart is at home.
Knowledge is not achieved until shared.
Love is what the heart needs.
If it's wrong to love you, then my heart just wont let me be right.
Love is perfect, even when we are not.
A heart that loves is always young.
Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest ofyour life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you.
There is only one sort of love but there are athousand of copies.
Love doesn't cause pain, people do.
Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life.
Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.
If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
I have to admit that I fell in love twice. First was with you and the second was with the person you became when you were already mine.
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take!
He who never fell never climbed.
Success is more attitude then aptitude.
If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late.
A minute now is better than a minute later.
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange.
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
This is the truth: As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men, Proud of their vain learning, go round and round Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense, Opens the way to immortality.
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
The Soul is made of consciousness and mind; it is made of life and vision. It is made of the earth and the waters; it is made of air and space. It is made of light and darkness; it is made of desire and peace. It is made of anger and love; it is made of virtue and vice. It is made of all that is near; it is made of all that is afar. It is made of all.
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer."
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one?s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. (on J.D. Salinger)
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
A poem is never finished only abandoned
Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time?
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
There was neither non-existence nor existence then; there was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond. There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day. That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse. Other than that there was nothing beyond. Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning; with no distinguishing sign, all this was water. The life force that was, was covered with emptiness, that one arose through the power of heat. Desire came upon that one in the beginning; that was the first seed of mind.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
There is no ache more deadly than the striving to be oneself.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life there into, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Discovery consists in seeing whateveryone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
To save all we must risk all.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you.
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person?s avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.
The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this 'itself' is the real 'myself.' From this standpoint here language reveals its limitations with a vengeance I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is always 'right,' in the sense that the stars are always in their 'right' places.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
There's always room at the top.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
...advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.