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I always say, "I'm sorry for your loss" to my families with good intentions. But, sometimes, I feel like I’m not being completely honest with them. It isn’t because I’m not sorry for their losses, it’s because that isn’t really the phrase that I should be saying to them. In my mind, I mean to be saying, “I’m sorry that I don’t have experience enough in my own life to understand your pain, and I’m sorry that I can’t be more for you in your grief.”
I had to lean firmly into my grief until I didn’t need to anymore. I still believed that I deserved to feel the way that I was feeling. I still believed that I needed my grief in order to recognize myself. I needed to have him, so that I could know me.
"Shame was a barometer for knowing if I had put myself too far out there. Shame let me know when I needed to reel it in, and become smaller. That’s the thing about shame: He wants us small enough to fit inside of his pocket."
"My grief was insidious. He looked like me, and spoke in the tone of my voice. He knew my inflections, and influenced my facial expressions. He was more comfortable in my skin than I had ever dared to be. My grief appeared meek, but he stood firmly atop the crown of my heart. Always. But, I didn’t try to escape him. I believed that I needed to hold onto my grief, because I loved the memory of what gave him to me. I truly loved the person who left the charred, blistering imprint on my chest."
I have always known grief, and I always will. If I'm honest, my roots have been anchored in grief most of my life. The only thing that's different about it now is the outcome.
Jesus IS NOT A SURVIVAL KIT! HE'S THE ANSWER TO A NEW LIFE.
The new Earth is not reached through effort. It is stabilized through coherence.
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
"How am I supposed to help guide this family through a circumstance that I just barely made it through myself when I was younger?"
Thanks for made me mentally sick ??
We are all made of star stuff.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Creativity takes courage.
I paint flowers so they will not die.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
I don't paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul.
What I dream of is an art of balance.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it's all that matters.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Where there is love there is life.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
We are most alive when we are in love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
Love is a friendship set on fire.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Behind every successful person, there are a lot of unsuccessful years.
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and love.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength or knowledge, but a lack of will.
Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many people you brought with you.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Opportunities don't happen. You create them.
The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
If you want to be happy, be.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Happy is the man who is living by his hobby.
The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp.
The happiness of your life is the sum total of your choices.
Happiness is not something you find, it's something you create.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Dare to be yourself.
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
It is easier to be brave in a crowd than alone.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Earn your leadership every day.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but by the presence of clear strengths.
Lost time is never found again.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
You may delay, but time will not.
Time is a created thing. To say I don't have time is to say I don't want to.
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Time waits for no one.
It is not enough to be busy. The question is: what are we busy about?
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
The present moment is the only moment available to us.
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Time is free, but it's priceless.
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man.
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.
Dream big and dare to fail.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Dreams are not what you see in sleep; dreams are the things which do not let you sleep.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit. Dream larger.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Knowledge is power.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize the less I know.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by discomforts.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Change before you have to.
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Well done is better than well said.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.
Progress requires action and risk.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
We are all failures — at least the best of us are.
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
The brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Don't bury your failures; let them inspire you.
A man who has made a mistake and doesn't correct it is making another mistake.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
You can't let your failures define you — you have to let them teach you.
It doesn't matter how many times you fall, what counts is how many times you get up.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
The biggest challenge in life is being yourself in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
A bad attitude is like a flat tire. If you don't change it, you'll never go anywhere.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines the outcome more than anything else.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
You become what you think about all day long.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
An optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; a pessimist stares at the thorns.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest, it is about who came and never left your side.
A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Your friends are the family you choose.
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
Act as though it is impossible to fail.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.
Hard times never last, but hard people do.
Your limitation — it's only your imagination.
Dream it. Wish it. Do it.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.
Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
He conquers who endures.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
A winner never stops trying.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be failure.
A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Happiness is the highest good.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am.
The world is will and representation.
Hell is other people.
Man is condemned to be free.
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
One cannot step into the same river twice.
In the beginning was the Word.
To be is to be perceived.
The present is the only thing that has no end.
No man is an island, entire of itself.
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter — often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter — in the eye.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Out of life's school of war: What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Science is the poetry of reality.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just butterfly collecting.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Work is love made visible.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed — there is so little competition.
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Work hard in silence; let your success be your noise.
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you.
Quality is not an act; it is a habit.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; Third by experience, which is the bitterest.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The wise man does not speak to those seeking the truth but to those who know it.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
No man was ever wise by chance.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Common sense is not so common.
In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence; the second, listening; the third, remembering; the fourth, practicing; the fifth, teaching others.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
The wisest among us is the one who is humble enough to recognize what he doesn't know.
Listen to understand, not to reply.
Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Real wisdom is knowing the right thing to do, and doing it even when it's difficult.
Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.
Actions speak louder than words.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
Be the energy you want to attract.
Be a voice, not an echo.
The comeback is always stronger than the setback.
It's not about being the best. It's about being better than you were yesterday.
Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath and start again.
Count your blessings, not your problems.
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction is the biggest step of your life.
Fortune favors the bold.
You are stronger than you think.
Love is not about who you can live with; it's about who you cannot live without.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
It takes a village to raise a child.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift — that is why it is called the present.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.
The only way out is through.
The loudest person in the room is rarely the most dangerous one. Watch the quiet ones. They're building.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself.
Robins appear when loved ones are near
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
What you seek is seeking you.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
