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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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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton 
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. 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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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
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
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
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
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
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
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
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