We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue water and white clouds covering colorful landmasses filled with thriving, beautiful, living things like human beings.
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.
Put your own twist to it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Small things make me smile.
I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can’t be a finisher in just 6 months or one year. You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.
It’s not ‘can’; it’s ‘will.’ You have to will things into fruition.
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I’m not perfect, it’s really frustrating. I’m really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
It’s crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette’s syndrome.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Dreams don’t have deadlines. I’m thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that’s left is The Extraordinary.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.
I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
If you have a positive frame of mind, you can manifest positive things in your life.
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.
Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most.
I never said most of the things I said.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.