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It takes the storm to prove the real shelter.
It’s a funny thing about life – if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
It’s a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
- Madeleine L’engle / Writer
It’s a mistake to think that we can impress the world by compromising with it.
It’s all hype.
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
- Marilyn Moats Kennedy / “Across the Board”
It’s better to give others a piece of your heart than a piece of your mind.
It’s better to lend a helping hand than to point an accusing finger.
It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and despair.
It’s better to swallow your pride than to eat your words.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of blaming others for all our problems, but that won’t bring us closer to God.
It’s easy to identify people who can’t count to ten. They’re in front of you in the supermarket express lane.
- June Henderson / “Nashville Banner”
It’s important to realize that it is not things that make us upset. The events themselves are meaningless. It’s how we react that counts. How we choose to process any event is entirely up to us. If we choose inner peace, we’ll have peace.
It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
It’s not how much you say but how much you care that brings the most
comfort.
It’s not the hours you put in that count, but what you put in the hours
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
It’s risky to go out on a limb - but that’s where the fruit is.
It’s the little moments that make life big.
It’s the most unhappy people who fear change.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Joy thrives in the soil of praise.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Voltaire
Judge yourself before you judge another.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.
- Elena Bonner / Human rights activist
Just because everything is changed, doesn’t mean it isn’t the same.
- Alfred E. Newman
Just when you think you’ve graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.
- Mary H Waldrip / Journalist
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t.
Keep your thoughts in line, or they’ll lead you astray.
Kind criticism is always the right kind.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- Eric Hoffer
Kindness is always in season.
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Kindness to the elderly brightens their sunset years.
Know enough to, know enough not to.
Knowledge can be dangerous if it doesn’t lead to wisdom.
Knowledge has no power until it is used.
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
- Plato
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge
Leaders don’t attain greatness by giving orders but by serving others.
Learning is discovering that something is possible.
- Fritz Perls / Psychoanalyst / 1893-1970
Learning is the best of all wealth; it is easy to carry, thieves cannot steal it, and tyrants cannot seize it; neither fire nor water can destroy it; and far from decreasing, it increases by giving.
- The Naladiyar
Let no thought linger in your mind that you would be ashamed to let out of your mouth.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy / 35th U.S. President / 1917-1963
Let us not worry about the future. Those who do what is right are always rewarded.
- Beatrice Schenk De Regniers / “The Enchanted Forest” / Scribner
Life consists not only in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Life is a daring adventure.
- Helen Keller
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye / Entertainer / 1913-1987
Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.
- William Bond
Life is like a fountain – some drink, and others just gargle.
Life is like a game of tennis - you can’t win without serving well.
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
- Sharon Salzberg / Cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Life is made up of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.
- D. Trinidad Hunt / Author
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this something must be attained.
- Marie Curie
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
- Rose Kennedy
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
- Karen Horney, MD / 1885-1952
Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed by the fire of enthusiasm.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life’s trials should make us better, not bitter.
Listen a hundred times, ponder a thousand times, speak once!
Listen to understand, then speak with love.
Listening may be the most loving thing you do today.
Little sins can ad up to big trouble.
Live as if there were no tomorrow, learn as if you would live forever.
- Seen on a Florida airport marquee
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Live in your hopes & not your fears.
- Positive G
Live to give.
Live your life and forget your age.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
- Socrates / Philosopher / c. 470-399 B.C.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Look backward with gratitude and forward with confidence.
Look for the blessing in every burden.
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Looking back, we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
- Dan Millman / Writer
Lord, pride, that fearful enemy, so quickly takes control; I plead, this day, your pardoning grace to cleanse my heart and soul.
- DJD
Lord, take my life and make it wholly thine; fill my poor heart with thy great love divine. Take all my will, my passion, self and pride; I now surrender, Lord – in me abide.
- Orr
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the lime breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re really not interested in order to get where you’re going.
- Christopher Darlington Morley
Love increases as we give it away.
Love is an active verb.
Love people and not things; use things and not people.
Loving life is a two-way street… We don’t receive care and compassion if we don’t extend them to others.
- George Shinn / Entrepreneur
Make good choices.
- Sharon Stokes
Make it a rule…never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say, “I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better this day.”
- Charles Kingsley / Clergyman and writer / 1819-1875
Make mistakes, but never make the mistake of saying you never made one.
- Positive G
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
- Anne McCaffrey / Writer
Make one person happy each day and in 40 years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
- Charley Willey
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
- Grenville Kleiser / Writer / 1868-1953
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make your decisions with your heart, and you’ll end up with heart disease.
- Harvey Mackay
Make your life a mission, not an intermission.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
- Charles Mingus
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
- Mark Twain
Man’s highest good may come from his deepest suffering.
Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
- Freya Madeline Stark / Explorer and travel writer / 1893-1993
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
- Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Many of life’s circumstances are created by three basic choices: disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with, and the laws you choose to obey.
- Charles Millhuff
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
- Jackie Robinson / Major league second baseman
Many people do nothing, but no one has nothing to do.
- Positive G
Marriages may be made in heaven, but they have to be worked out on earth.
Master your habits or your habits will master you.
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz / Writer / 1894-1985
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
- Thomas Dewar
Misers aren’t fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors.
- David Brenner / Comedian
Money can buy anything – but sense.
- Hebrew proverb
Money is a good servant, but a poor master.
Money is what you make it – a master or a servant.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
- Francois Gautier
Most of us are far-sighted about sin – we see the sins of others, but not our own.
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Much can be accomplished when we don’t care who gets the credit.
- Positive G
My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they’re popular; you make them because they’re right.
- Theodore Hesburgh, C. S.C.
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
- Ovid / Poet / c. 43 B.C.– 18 A.D.
My life, my love I give to Thee, thou Lamb of God who died for me; O may I ever faithful be, my Savior and my God!
- Hudson
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own, and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
- Charles Dickens
Neither vice nor virtue can remain a secret forever.
Never a wedding without tears, nor a funeral without laughter.
- Italian proverb
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. / Writer
Never invite trouble, it always accepts!
Never let a dark past cloud a bright future.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
- Sandra Carey
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.
- John D. Rockefeller
New opinions are always suspect, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
- John Locke
No deception is more dangerous than self-deception
No God, no peace; Know God, know peace.
No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca / Philosopher and statesman / c. 4 B.C.–65 A.D.
[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty.
-William Shakespeare / “All’s Well That Ends Well”
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