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Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
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Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
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 have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
In your days - things like this happen to you...
You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake,
and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired -
but I don't want you to miss this."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
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