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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by e. e. cummings.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire,
live by love though the stars walk backward.
- e. e. cummings
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every moment wasted looking back
keeps us from moving forward.
- Hilary Clinton
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
- John Lennon
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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)
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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