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No pain, no gain.

Learn to listen, opportunity often knocks softly.

Don''t wear earmuffs in a land of rattlesnakes.

I wear my wife''s eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

A woman''s greatest power is her vulnerability.

"I came, I saw, SHE conquered."
(The original Latin seems to have been garbled).

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it,
This life of luxury and social power;
You gave yourself as principal, and bought it,
But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

If you go in search of honey, you must expect to encounter bees.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Every closed eye is not sleeping; and every open eye is not seeing.

Trouble strikes in series of threes, but after a series of three, the next job is not the fourth job... it''s the start of a brand new series of three.

Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait,
And die at last with unappeased desire,
Than live to be the jest of such a fate,
For that is my conception of hell-fire.

You tend to become like the people and ideas you hang around with.

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

There isn''t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don''t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one''s work is terribly important.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education is the progressive discovery of ignorance.

You can''t have everything. Where would you put it?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Love may hurt you, but it will never hurt the one you love.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That''s what a reputation is. You can''t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill,
To turn the current of a woman''s will.

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard''s power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It''s us and our homemade masks.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

A room without a book is like a body without a soul.

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn''t get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce multiple interpretations.

In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one''s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

There is but one genuine love potion: consideration.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Count the garden by the flowers,
never by the leaves that fall.
Count your life with smiles
and not the tears that roll.

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.

If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.