Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.
Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.
I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.
Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.
Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.
An inventor is a man who asks ‘Why?’ of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question– ‘Is this all?
It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
And I assure you, I am perfectly sane now. Stable as a workhorse in old Ireland, my friends, with only one goal in life. To do good. Always good.
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other’s eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.
Solitude is very different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.
In my View, Truth is always better than Unknowingness, because the Scars of Truth heal over Time – the Scars of Unknowingness won’t.
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It’s really funny.
Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.
Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.
Actually, you can be bad at something…but if you love doing it, that will be enough. – August Boatwright