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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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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
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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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
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
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
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)
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
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
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- 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
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)
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
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 not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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 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
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
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
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
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
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
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- 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
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
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