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We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
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)
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
We CHOOSE our actions, thoughts, and feelings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering are
Our Past, and Our Expectations and Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have our thorns - and blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
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
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
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