Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and not good enought to recollect how often we've told it to the same person?
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first BE who you really are, then, DO what you need to do, in order to HAVE what you want.
Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so let's get wasted all the time, and have the time of our life.
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
It is really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends but it is really sad when the best of friends become two strangers
When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too
full to embrace the present.
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. (i.e. if you don't practice your instrument at all over the summer, you're going to be really bad when school starts again)
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
They are able because they think they are able.
Often the greatest enemy of present happiness is past happiness too well
remembered.
Those who restrain desires do so because theirs is weak enough to be
restrained.
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Excellence can only be attained if you care more than others think is wise,
risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical,
and expect more than others think is possible.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
He has achieved success who has worked well,laughed often and loved much.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A man who wants something so much that he is capeable of risking his entire
future on a simple throw of the dice in order to get it,is sure to succeed.
Being superior to others has never required greater effort.What is difficult is
the desire to be superior to yourself.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its joy.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the
people who have to wait for them.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for
those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time
is eternity.
How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows
all of it.
It says something about our times that we rarely use the word 'sinful' except to describe a really good dessert.
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
That which does not kill us hurts like a bitch.
How can you dream the impossible dream, when you can't get any sleep?
It's about the quality
of your life versus the quantity. It's about making your days really count
because tomorrow can't be promised to us. Make today count.
Don't dream it, be it.
It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that. Even in Australia.
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