Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.
Pleasure in the job gives perfection in the work.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
There is only one unpardonable sin- deliberate cruelty. All rest can be forgiven.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
Your eyes in which I travel, Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
“If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.”
Give yourself; you will receive more than you give.
Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.
Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
The glory of mighty men is given one quarter by their boldness, two quarters by luck and a quarter by their crimes.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
What is to give light must endure burning
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ---- Whatever advice you give, be short.
The mind was not given to us for understanding the inexplicable, but to avoid stumbling upon the trees.
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius
Art is not a mirror which reflects the world, but a hammer with which we give it shape.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
As you give out so shall toy receive.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.
When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.
At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
What we are and what we possess is but a loan- and that not for long! Do not clutch what has been given to you, for joy and desire to possess are but nails fastening you to the perishable world.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.
But I don't give up; I forget why not.
Thanks to life, for what has given me
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.0.99
Forgiveness is better than revenge
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the tragedy is when a man is afraid of the light.
“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
To err is human; to forgive is divine.
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
Time is money, so give me some money to think.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
I do what I can to give everyone a moment of happiness. This is at the heart of my music.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
“What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
It's easy to give advice to othersIt's difficult to know yourself .
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.