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Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice,
I would have English Channels round every country.
And the atmosphere would be such that
anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
- Winston Churchill
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Where there's life, there's hope.
- Terence
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
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
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion blooms where there is no expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
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