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My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
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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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
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Simple living is the way to happy living.
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Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
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Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Eternity:
I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my being
My curiosity unbound, I test the limits
of the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end which is not an end.
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The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
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By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know that miracles are the natural way of the Universe
Your only job is to move your doubting mind out of the way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
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