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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Be not afraid of flying. Angels live in the clouds and the devil on the earth.
We will either find a way, or make one.
Our sickness is between our ears.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone.
I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?
If I can't see you, feel you or touch you. Do you really exist outside my mind?
I don't govern events, I govern myself.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.
If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to stop, you can't.
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that.
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Anger is what makes a clear mind clouded.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry.''
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
Dream as if you have forever. Live as if you only have today.
Having a dream is just the beginning.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
When Reality overcomes the dream, all sanity is lost in the depth.
I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell.
Dream big and dare to fail.
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
You have the courage and power to live your dreams.
Dreaming brings happiness within our grasp.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
With true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.
Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened!
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Like everything we do, happiness can be learned.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
If it's not real you can't hold it in your hand, you can't feel it with your heart and I won't believe it, but if it's true you can see it with your eyes even in the dark.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
Imagination is the limit.
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Remember yesterday, imagine tomorrow, but live today.
You see things and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were and say, Why not?
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
I refuse your reality and substitute my own.
What you see is what you get.
Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.
Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
If you fell of the horse mount it again.
True regret is thinking you didn't try.
Try and you have a 50% probability of success, don't try and you have a 100% probability of failure.
I tried and failed, while you just failed without trying.
We like people for there qualities, but love them for there defects.
I'm perfect, because I'm me, with all my flaws.
If I were perfection would you be here by my side?
Perfection is an illusion, but what's real anyway?
I can give arguments to prove this is a dream, but you can not give arguments to prove it's real.
You will see when you will believe it is possible.
Positive thinking is the key to all closed doors.
Optimism in humans is just a wallpaper masking the ugly walls of negativity.