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Is it bigger than breadbox?
- the early television show Twenty Questions
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
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
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
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)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
I am Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
I am Deliciously Naughty.
I am Enchantingly Whimsical.
I am Filled With Mischief and Giggles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile;
giggle your laugh;
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
I skip on the beach, and play with the waves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
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