The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.
For better to come, good must stand aside.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
You fall off the horse and you get back on.
There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome. . . If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.
You can't write poetry on the computer.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance