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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
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
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
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
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
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
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Know that love has no limits.
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
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 shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
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
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Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
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
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
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