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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
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- 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
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
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- 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
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
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.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- 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
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
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
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -
for future generations.
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
Literally planting trees for
your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,
but far more important...
use this symbolism - this imagery -
to represent the kind of legacy
you want to leave to future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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