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There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Just because I don't care,
doesn't mean I don't understand.
- Matt Groening's TV series The Simpsons.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
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