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The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading.
I will rather say more necessary
because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE
My key to living an inspired life involves
Embracing my history,
Understanding the function of expectations
and gently learning to have none;
Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate
and markets and roadways and others,
I do control myself and my response
to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
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