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I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings
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Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
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
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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