Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.
He who sings frightens away his ills.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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