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"No one in the South ever asks if you have crazy people in your family. They just ask what side they're on." | "I work in customer service, believe me, it's always a treat to see a customer look you in the eye when he or she talks to you." | "You learn more by getting your butt kicked than by getting it kissed." |
"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." | "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." | "Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." |
"There will come a point in everyone's life where only intuition can make the leap ahead,
without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why,
but one must accept intuition as a fact." | "I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry all the time." | "He that hath no fools, knaves or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightening." |
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." |
"Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful." | "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." |
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." | "I've decided to take up Jogging... | "Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party." |
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." | "The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer." | "A race is just a race, but a friend who paces you is a friend for life." |
"There's nothing wrong with wanting more out of life, just as long as you truly appreciate what you already have." | "Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. | "One thing I have learned in my wandering life, my friends, is never to call anything a misfortune till you have seen the end of it. Is not every hour a fresh point of view?" |
"I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true." | "Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!" | "There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way". |
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human eXperience." | "To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." | "Did you know that houseflies take off backwards? If you want to swat one, aim slightly behind it." |
"Only I can change my life. | "Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person." | "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." |
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." | "Family doesn't have to be your relatives - family means that your life is part of someone else's life, like sections of hair that need each other to form a braid." | "No one prays for anything who has not been deeply alarmed." |
"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." | "I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried-but they wanted cash." | "When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" …My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences… Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." |
"Your biggest challenge isn't someone else. It's the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells "CAN'T", but you don't listen. You just push harder. And then you hear the voice whisper "can". And you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are." | "I know that there is a world outside. People keep putting pictures of it on the internet." | "Planting a seed doesn't make it grow." |
"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters. Over that I have complete control." | "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." | "A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution." |
"One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... "How did I get through all of that?" Just never let go of hope. Just never quit dreaming. And never let love depart from your life." | "No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why." | "I wasn't laughing at you, |
"It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him." | "Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members." | "Be glad that God trusts you with some problems, it is a compliment that he believes you have what it takes to handle them." |
"What is the secret for a long life?' | "Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things." | "The crisis of yesterday |
"The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you've given away." | ""In life, 'changing' is like being in a ship on the sea: you must build a new boat with material from the old one you're travelling in; you can't go on shore to destroy the old one first and then build a new one --- but you have to re-construct while sailing." | "The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you've given away." |
"Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." | "Don't say you don't have enough time. | "There's so much more to everyone you will ever meet than will ever meet your eye." |
"To me, faith means not worrying." | "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. | "Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes." |
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof." | "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." | "Your foremost job as a leader is to raise your own energy level and then to help orchestrate the energies of those around you." |
"Money doesn't make you happy.
I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy with $48 million." | "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." | "How many people made $100,000 last year? Less than five percent of the American people make that much money. But one did, Mikey Eisner, the head mouseketeer of Disney. |
"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance." | "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." | "The really nice thing about NOT planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression." |
"You must constantly ask yourself these questions... Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, What do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." | "If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: The rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time." | "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." |
"I want to be a light of hope in a dark tunnel for people." | "Life is a tragedy when seen close up, but a comedy when viewed in a long shot." | "There are two ways of eXerting one's stength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." |
"Doing stupid things make life worth living. Feeling stupid? I know I am!" | "You can have everything you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want." | "You gotta play the hand that's dealt to you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it." |
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." | "We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise. And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies." | "Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be." |
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." | "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." | "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. " |
"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." | "Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." | "Liberty means responsibility. |
"I'll not listen to reason...reason always means what someone else has got to say." | "A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it." | "After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over." |
"A pessimist is a person who looks both ways when crossing a one-way street." | "There are two ways to slide through life: To believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." | "Man is the only animal that
can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." |
"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius." | "When I was in high school, I got in trouble with my girlfriends Dad. He said, 'I want my daughter home by 8:15.' 'COOL' I replied, 'the middle of August!'" | "A hospital bed is a parked taXi with the meter running." |
"I think you should always laugh in bed... | "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." | "One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." |
"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence." | "A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board." | "Do not confuse having a career with having a life. They are not the same thing" |
"To love someone, you would have to have Hate them. To hate them, you would have to have cared for them. And to Care for them, you would have to have Loved them." | "Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas... Possibilities do not add up. They multiply." | "One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time." |
"The worst bankrupt is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything in the world but his enthusiasm and will come through again to success." | "Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent." | "Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." |
