Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out stronger.
Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery
In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.
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.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
Never say never
I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on oneself.
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unerträglicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wäre. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso.
Hear me!", cried the Ghost. "My time is nearly gone.
No one can understand him better than I do. The greatest wisdom that ever lived in the world could scarcely know Richard better than my love does.
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
