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We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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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
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
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
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
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
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Sheri Rosenthal
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
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