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Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology
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
The greatest battle of all is simply... Life.
This is no child's game. This is the big one -
the Super Bowl - the Game of all games.
The rules of Life are unwritten and unknown.
Perhaps, one could say that there are no rules.
The Judge has ultimate power.
She can call the game at any time - for any reason.
The penalties in the Game are completely arbitrary -
in both timing and severity.
Penalty for what, we ask?
The Judge is silent.
How can I win the Game?
"You can never win," comes the answer,
"So just take pleasure in playing the Game."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
- Margaret Mead
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Be Utterly and Dependably Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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