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motivational things-in-life wish
Charles Dickens The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
motivational best-friend friendship
Charles Caleb Colton True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
motivational strength fear
Charles Spurgeon It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
motivational trials teach
Charles Spurgeon Trials teach us what we are.
motivational memories real
Alan Watts The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.
motivational men often-is
Alan Watts The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.
motivational war heart
Alan Watts If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the minority wand the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the 'external' world - especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.
motivational change moving-on
Alan Watts The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
memories book writing
Charles Caleb Colton Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
memories appreciate literature
Charles Caleb Colton Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
memories mind firsts
Charles Caleb Colton Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Charles Caleb Colton Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
Charles Caleb Colton All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
memories green lord
Charles Dickens Lord, keep my memory green.
memories husband men
Charles Dickens I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
memories dictator amnesia
Charles Stross Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
memories liberty might
Charles Stross If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
real giving gold
Charles Caleb Colton It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility
real passion deceit
Charles Caleb Colton As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
real deceit our-actions
Charles Caleb Colton The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real evil lasts
Charles Caleb Colton There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
real honest strategy
Charles Caleb Colton Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
reality drawing views
Charles Caleb Colton Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.
real character mean
Charles Caleb Colton Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real atmosphere gold
Charles Caleb Colton To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.
real home thinking
Charles Caleb Colton We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.