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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen 
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
The WAY is Not The Way for You,
Unless You Come With an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dance... enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative
of the dignity of my high vocation,
and its many responsibilities.
Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way
to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
- Mother Teresa
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Know that miracles are the natural way of the Universe
Your only job is to move your doubting mind out of the way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
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
Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred.
Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
- Christina Baldwin
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
You are perfect exactly the way you are.
- Werner Erhard
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
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
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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