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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Lord Chesterfield.
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
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If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
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
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
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