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The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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