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Most of us seldom let the outrageous
part of ourselves out to play.
Notice that I didn't say "never," I said "seldom."
Halloween is one of those exceptions.
While there are certainly many "bah humbug" houses on our street,
more than half the houses wear an acknowledgement of Halloween -
and nothing about Halloween is NOT outrageous.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Today's problems can seldom be solved using yesterday's answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like an Owl, I am Alert, Patient, and Objective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Alert, and doors will open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Never quit.
- Anonymous
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