Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Soon you will be sitting on top of the world.
In Australia we've got culture up to our freckles.
The Australian landscapes show best by the red light of the hot-weather sunsets, when the dark feathery foliage of the gumtrees comes out in the exquisite relief upon the fiery fogs that forms the sky.
Sydney? That's a strange name for a city. Why didn't they call it Fred?
Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
--
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
The only real aging process is the erosion of worthy ideals.
Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Nothing is impossible... only improbable or never tried.
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
You can't have rosy thoughts about the future if your mind is full of blues about the past.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado--I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.
Farming looks mighty easy
when your plow is a pencil,
and you're a thousand miles
from the corn field.
I had a realization today while reading various self help books at Barnes and Noble.
Everyone really does need to take time out for themselves every now and then. Actually I would say every couple of weeks at least.
We are all trying so hard to achieve various things in our lives, that we sometimes forget to look after ourselves.
Yeah I have hobbies, friends and other outlets besides my immediate family, but I never really do anything just for me. You know, guilty pleasures like a massage, sleeping in just because I want to and not because I'm tired, driving off and exploring the countryside by myself, riding my bike to see where the path goes. The list goes on.
No I do not think this is a selfish idea. I think it will enable me to have a more balanced lifestyle that will allow my loved ones to appreciate me more. I also have to make a point of letting them have this same sort of time as well. Not that I am stopping them from now but if they want to, let them.
As seen in the inside of Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell II- Back into Hell - CD Jacket:
May Peace Prevail On Earth
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Soon you will be sitting on top of the world.
In Australia we've got culture up to our freckles.
The Australian landscapes show best by the red light of the hot-weather sunsets, when the dark feathery foliage of the gumtrees comes out in the exquisite relief upon the fiery fogs that forms the sky.
Sydney? That's a strange name for a city. Why didn't they call it Fred?
Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
--
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
The only real aging process is the erosion of worthy ideals.
Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.