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Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
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Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
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
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)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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)
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
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
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
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
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)
"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 have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
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
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
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
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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