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The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Related topics: Motivational Positive Success
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Don't project your past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
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
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
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