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Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou 
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
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
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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