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Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
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If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Today I Release All My Troubles And Grief.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
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