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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Were it left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers,
or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Set interim goals, preferably daily goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Hero needed - apply now -
open minded independent thinker -
courage preferred.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
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 nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
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
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 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
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
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
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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.
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
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
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
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
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