Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Come, butterfly It's late We've miles to go together.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Materiality begets oblivion.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
One shouldn't get too involved with people who can't possibly understand one.
We do not go to concerts just to listen to music. It is the human need to be together. It is our basic need.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles.
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
Human beings don't exist for food and clothes alone, you know. We become human beings only when we get educated and informed
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
A good man never lets grief get the upper hand. The mountains are calm even in a tempest.
“I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Don't forget to love yourself.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
Then you will know, you need me as I need you, together we complete the cycle of our existence.
“Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
He who a single one loves is blessed – beloved of everybody. Whoever self-interest forgets the best will blessèd dreams embody.
We’re all on a boat and a voyage we share, we plough the great sea together.
“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic, where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws. [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”(his last words)
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Let's forget today who is friend or foe, and hold each other in caring embrace.
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
But I don't give up; I forget why not.
I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.”
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, you should never completely forget about it.
Life is defined by the Law of Force and Necessity (the more you beat necessity the stronger you get)
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad”
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time, will think of us.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.
Now, try to put on a black skin for five minutes. I know you find this hard to do, but there is no other way to get the living feel of our situation.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Love is being stupid together.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.