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We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton 
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
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If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
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