"Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time."
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"You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown."
"We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move"
"The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love."
"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
"I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing."
"The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays."
"Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead."
"When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse."
"We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves."
"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."
"Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?"
"Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate."
"Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall."
"Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period."
"I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it."
"Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again."
"I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot."
"Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on."
"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge."