(4333 quotes found)
“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
C.S. Lewis
“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”
William James
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
Winston Churchill
“Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.”
Ani Difranco
“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”
Richard Bach
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”
Wayne Dyer
“There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.”
Johnny Depp
“If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.”