To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
Denis Waitley
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)
Albert Einstein
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
Henry David Thoreau
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
This magical universe is so faithful in waiting for us to get out of our own way. Many people do not realize that the sharpening of wit occurs when one humbles their wit. It is in the humble mindset that beauty and magic flow freely.
Steve Maraboli
you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview.
Charles Dickens
Chase your passion, not your pension.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.
Terry Pratchett
Illusion is the first of the pleasures
Voltaire
By taking the time to contemplate where you are and where you want to be, you greatly empower yourself. It's a wonderful opportunity to finally set in motion the changes you want in your life.
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.
Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates
Samuel Johnson
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.
R. K. Bergethon
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
George E. Bergman
There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
Jack Bergman
Your wife is a big hippo! My face is melting! My face is meltinnnnggg!
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