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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
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
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Dance... enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
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