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The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
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The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage,
a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
Our growing softness,
our increasing lack of physical fitness,
is a menace to our security.
- John F. Kennedy
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
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