Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it.
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Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.
The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness
It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.
Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.
Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.
Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.
After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.
Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.
Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony D'Angelo
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
Don't fear change -- embrace it.
Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Leonardo DaVinci
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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