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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by James F. Bymes.
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
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Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous 
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
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