"Nothing is worth more than this day."
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings."
"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"Trust yourself, and you will know how to live."
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes"
"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
"A person hears only what they understand."
"To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking."
"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."
"knowing is not enough,we must apply
willing is not enough,we must do.."
"I love those who yearn for the impossible."
"Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."
"This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden."
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they the root in our personal experience."
"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back — Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
"If you don't feel it, you'll never get it."
"We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge."
"The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything."
"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"
"Waste not a day in vain digression;
with resolute, courageous trust
seek every possible impression
and make it firmly your posession
you'll then work on because you must."
"Doubt can only be removed by action."
"We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming."
leave behind to conquer time."
"What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality."
"Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of poetry, gives shape to a whole order of creatures of which we are the lowliest, and everything around us seems to be more glorious, everyone else more perfect…If, on the other hand, we can make up our minds to go about our daily tasks, resigned to our feelings, and hardships, we often find that, in spite of our meanderings and procrastinations, we have gone farther than quite a few others have gone with their sails unfurled and steering gear functioning."
"No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
"To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being."
"Distance… is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision… But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness."
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.