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“You must look within for value,
but must look beyond for perspective.”
“You must lose a fly to catch a trout.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan
“You must lose everything in order to gain anything.”
“You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.”
“You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.”
“You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance.”
“You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue.”
“You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.”
“You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
“You must love the sun! How much should you love? You should love it as if all the suns in the universe have gone out and only our sun is left!”
“You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.”
“You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.”
Source: Middlemarch
“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.”
Source: Middlemarch
“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.”
Source: Middlemarch, Volume III
“You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.”
“You must love yourself first to the soul of your aura...”
“You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
“You must make a choice,” the Goddess said.
“Is that my only choice – to choose between men?” I asked. “I want what Mother had!”
“Your mother chose two men,” she said with light laughter.
“No! She chose independence for her country. She chose power and freedom,” I yelled.
Almost as if in response, a pulsating energy moved up from the ground into my bare feet. It thrummed up my body and radiated out in a bright light, first from my toes, then from my fingertips, then the top of my head.
“I choose power,” I said. “I choose freedom.”
Source: Cleopatra's Moon
“You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.”
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
“You must make a place for fear, fear under control. We think that the head is important, that the brain sits like a monarch on the throne of the body. But the body is powerful too, and the brain cannot survive without it.”
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
“You must make bold experiments in life!”
“You must make every change in your life that brings you closer to your happiness.”
“You must make every minutes that passes produce something”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.”
Source: The Last Word: An Autobiography
“You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different.”
“You must make them establish as a Law for their whole married life that degree of mutual self-sacrifice which is at present sprouting naturally out of the enchantment, but which, when the enchantment dies away, they will not have charity enough to enable them to perform.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“You must make time daily for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You must make time daily to care for your mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.”
“You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.”
“You must make your choice whether to hold on to some thing which cannot save you, or let go, and fall into the hands of the Lord.”
“You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
Source: God in the Dock
“You must make your dream a priority in order for it to become your life”
“You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.”
Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production
“You must make your own opportunities.”
“You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.”
Source: The Collector
“You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.”
“You must market your marketing.”
“You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.”
Source: A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever
“You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.”
“You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.”
“You must match your music to the kind of people God wants your church to reach.... The music you use 'positions' your church in your community. It defines who you are.... It will determine the kind of people you attract, the kind of people you keep, and the kind of people you lose.”
“You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.”
Source: Conversations with Yogananda: Stories, Sayings and Wisdom
“You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“You must miss your father terribly, I know. Lord Eddard was a brave man, honest and loyal...but quite a hopeless player.' He brought the seed to his mouth with the knife. 'In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people The players and the pieces.'
'And I was a piece?' She dreaded the answer.
'Yes, but don't let that trouble you. You're still half a child. Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players.' He at another seed. 'Cersei, for one. She thinks herself sly, but in truth she is utterly predictable. her strength rests on her beauty, birth, and riches. Only the first of those is truly her own, and it will soon desert her. I pity her then. She wants power, but has no notion what to do with it when she gets it. Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.”