Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
The way to stay fresh is to never stop traveling, to never stop listening. You never stop asking people what they think.
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
You may not be her first, her last, or her only.
She loved before she may love again.
But if she loves you now, what else matters?
She’s not perfect – you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can.
She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break – her heart.
So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.
Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
And let it be said that love is like a river that flows deep into the heart of the soul. For in every man and woman true love should be the ultimate goal.
We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Ich dad said it this way, 'Big people have big dreams and small people have small dreams. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dreams.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find one good, you must a hundred try.
For Manchester United to get a penalty we need a certificate from the Pope and a personal letter from the Queen.
Cultivating a close, warm hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift that's why they call it the present.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
Don't hope for something cause it's hopeless, wait for it to come on its own time.
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy.
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon you. Surely we must have a little, however little, native luminosity? Surely we can't be quite creatures. Grace substitutes a full, childlike and delighted acceptance of our Need, a joy in total dependence. We become 'jolly beggars'.
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity, but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.
Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas powered engines. There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Today, there are three kinds of people: the have’s, the have-not’s, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have’s.
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying 'Long time no see'.
Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties, the survival of humanity will be endangered.
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
If you kill a man like me, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me.
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew.
Don't forget your history
Know your destiny
In the abundance of water
The fool is thirsty
Rat race, rat race, rat race.
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation, but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
Love is a state of being.
It has nothing to do with anybody else.
One is not in love, one is love.
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea. A woman’s weapon is her tongue.
Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
I notice that more and more of our imports seem to be coming from overseas.
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it, you will feel you are not deserving.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I could find only three kinds of business in the world. Mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Love is a sickness full of woes,
all remedies refusing.
A plant that with most cutting grows,
most barren with best using.
Why so?
More we enjoy it, more it dies.
If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,
hey ho.
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship. A setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression, in which giving and taking are equal.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Two cures for love:
1. Don’t see him. Don’t phone or write a letter.
2. The easy way: get to know him better.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
The more you love, the more you'll find that life is good and friends are kind and only what we give away enriches us from day to day.
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure.
If it does, it is immortal.
The other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself, your own thinking coming back at you.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?