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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb 
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)
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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)
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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- 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
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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 best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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
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
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
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
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
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
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
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
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Good things come in small packages.
- old 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
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
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