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Those distractions that turn my attention from
what I thought I was going to do today are not "rat holes";
they are Enchanted Rabbit Holes
with a Magical White Bunny awaiting in each.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down
rat holes with baited breath.
- W. C. Fields
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Beliefs have evolved based on survival value.
Certain belief systems have been more conducive than others
to people living long enough to reproduce,
and having a high rate of reproduction.
It's that basic.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man tends to increase at a greater rate
than his means of subsistence.
- Charles Darwin
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
- Bono
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am what I am.
- Village People
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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