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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Related topics: Wisdom
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A state of expectancy is a great asset;
a state of uncertainty -
one moment thinking "perhaps"
and the next moment thinking "I don't know" -
will never get desired results.
- Ernest Holmes
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
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