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Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
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