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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Zora Neale Hurston.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Related topics: Cynical Religion
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
I want to know all Gods thoughts;
all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
- Henry David Thoreau
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
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
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Let's Roll.
- Todd Beamer
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Let Today be a Thanksgiving.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let your fire go out.
- Ayn Rand
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger,
regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue.
Let go of the need for approval.
- Lama Surya Das
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
Stop holding on to the past.
Release your regrets about whatever you may have done
or failed to do that turned out poorly.
Forgive others for whatever they may have done
or failed to do that cause you harm.
Declare today to be a new beginning.
Let go of the past and move on with creating
a joyful new future for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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