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There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Related topics: Inspirational
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag
out his dark convictions!
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Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares,
were there a danger of their coming true!
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations;
when they drop them they will drop you.
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We grow with years more fragile in body,
but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of
a bad conscience almost at once.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
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The notion of making money by popular work,
and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar
of all the devil's traps for artists.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of
words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
I can't forgive my friends for dying;
I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither -
these make the finest company in the world.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
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
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
- Friedrich Halm
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational
act that two people in love can commit.
- Bill Cosby
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
I am proud to be an American.
Because an American can eat anything on the face of
this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
- Bill Cosby
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
This is the answer to all questions about relationship.
When two people sing their lives in harmony,
their lives are grand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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