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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.
book beer words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
book night men
Charles Dickens Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
book reading writing
Charles Dickens There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book reading advice
Charles Caleb Colton When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
Charles Caleb Colton We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
Charles Caleb Colton With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
men perfection great-expectations
Charles Dickens The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Charles Dickens Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
Charles Dickens It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
Charles Dickens No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
Charles Dickens The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
Charles Dickens The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
Charles Dickens He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
Charles Dickens I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?