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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
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) 
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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)
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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
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)
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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
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
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
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
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
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
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
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate and markets
and roadways and others, I do control myself
and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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