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I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections,
they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia.
But when we have elections, they want observers.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
In my prayers I never said I needed a home.
I said I wanted a sanctuary.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is the right day to do
what you have long wanted to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work
without having to talk
because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
- Albert Schweitzer
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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)
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
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
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
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
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
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
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
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
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
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 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
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering are
Our Past, and Our Expectations and Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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