Some people carry their heart in their head and
some carry their head in their heart. The trick
is to keep them apart yet working together.
?David Hare ( subject: heart )
Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many
people sacrifice their identities by not doing what
they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful.
?Lila Swell ( subjects: identity )
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone
you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
?Mark Twain ( subjects: illusion)
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind,
left free, instinctively complicates life.
?Katherine F. Gerould ( subjects: instinct )
The essence of love begins when infatuation ends.
?Source Unknown ( subjects: infatuation )
To really know someone is to have loved
and hated him in turn.
?Marcel Jouhandeau ( subjects: intimacy )
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow
in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner
image of yourself, and if you look in there and see
a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
?John D. MacDonald ( subjects: integrity )
It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies
with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
?Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ( subjects: intentions )
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
?James Thurber ( subjects: indecision )
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from
breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony
to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
?Jessamyn West ( subjects: irony )
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the
imagination and bottling the common-sense.
?Helen Rowland ( subjects: imagination )
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything.
In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.
?Chinese Proverb ( subjects: joy )
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love
under the pretence of keeping it alive.
?Havelock Ellis ( subjects: jealousy )
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.
Know how to give without hesitation,
how to lose without regret,
how to acquire without meanness.
?George Sand ( subjects: kindness )
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings,
slow to make enemies, quick to make friends.
But rich or poor, quick or slow,
may you know nothing but happiness,
from this day forward. (Blessing: Celtic Quotes)
Know the true value of time; snatch,
seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
No idleness; no laziness; no
procrastination; never put off till
tomorrow what you can do today.
?Lord Chesterfield ( subject: laziness )
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
?Sara Teasdale ( subject: lovers )
Man is the only animal that laughs
and weeps; for he is the only animal that
is struck with the difference between
what things are and what they might of been.
?William Hazlitt ( subject: laughter )
If you are not too long, I will
wait here for you all my life.
?Oscar Wilde ( subject: loyalty )
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
The last is to say thank you.
In between, the leader is a servant.
?Max DePree ( subject: leaders )
Logics will get you from A to B,
Imagination will take you everywhere.
?Albert Einstein ( subject: logic )
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
?Halen ( subject: marriage )
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone
else tries to light that fire under
you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
?Stephen R. Covey ( subject: motivation )
All you need in the world is love and laughter.
That's all anybody needs. To have love in
one hand and laughter in the other.
?August Wilson ( subjects: needs )
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but
of little things, in which smiles and kindness,
and small obligations win and preserve the heart.
?Humphrey Davy ( subject: obligation )
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
?H. Jackson Brown Jr. ( subject: opportunity )
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who
can live at peace with others.
?Peace Pilgrim ( subjects: peace )
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in
someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick,
or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
?Iris Murdoch ( subject: pride )
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
?Abraham H. Maslow ( subject: perspective )
