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We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton 
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
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
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
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
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair.
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every day is a day to take action.
Whatever your choices, take action on those choices.
Taking no action is equally a choice,
just not a choice made from awareness.
Make conscious choices,
and take action on those choices - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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