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The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
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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
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
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage,
a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
Our growing softness,
our increasing lack of physical fitness,
is a menace to our security.
- John F. Kennedy
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
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
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
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