The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love, it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Love is a great force in private life, it is indeed the greatest of all things, but love in public affairs does not work.
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Accept-then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it, this will miraculously transform your whole life.
People don’t realize that now is all there ever is: there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
You can only lose something that you have, you cannot lose something that you are.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending on hanging on.
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions be the awareness behind them.
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one’s prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know – not what they want to know.
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism – that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.
Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people’s faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.
I don’t have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.
The secret is I have no shame.
I think there’s a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
There are some days when I can do my thing and be in the world and walk around, and it’s fine. And then there are other days where it’s totally not fine, and I want to crawl into a hole and die. And it’s the most invasive and worst.
I don’t think it’s something you can be prepared for. I’m just going with the flow.
I had to be physically and emotionally naked, show both my body and soul. I felt emotionally vulnerable and physically exposed, it was a hard choice to make but I was intrigued since the beginning. I think that…the things that scare you the most are the ones you gotta do.
I love that I’m alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don’t like solitude.
Being single also sucks sometimes because you’re single.
I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.
It’s very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you’re not perfect.
I do not look at the world in terms of black and white – and I find people who do rather scary. I think it’s all shades of grey.
There’s a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.
The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.
It’s much easier to wear your pain on the outside.
Men aren’t really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they’ve said, when really it’s obvious.
If you’ve been married for 400 years, as I have, it’s nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
Women basically want the same thing – a good passionate story, a great fantasy – and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn’t understand.
I’m not afraid to play the role of Christian Grey. Because I’m not like him. But I perfectly understand him. I never thought that he was a monster. He is simply woven from desires. As every one of us.
I’m still not aware that I’m good looking.
Mass appreciation doesnt always equate to something good.
I’m a feminist at heart, and I’m totally aware of why people have an issue with this show.
I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.
I don’t have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there’s directors that I’m desperate to work with that haven’t even made a movie yet, probably.
It’s not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being ‘cute.’
I think you only watch stuff you’ve done once because I don’t think it’s that beneficial to you. I think it’s important to sometimes be like, ‘What’s that thing I’m doing with my face? I didn’t think I was doing that.’
It’s a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream.
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
There is nothing on earth that you cannot have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.
The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
You can do anything you think you can. For through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.
The Universal Mind expresses itself largely through the individual. It is continually seeking an outlet.
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
Any alleged right of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn’t and can’t be a right.
An individualist is a man who says: I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.
An inventor is a man who asks Why? of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in between.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
