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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking
only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Know that rainbows and butterflies are God's gift to your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
Today is my day to see in myself the face of god.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Look In The Mirror to See The Face Of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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