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My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- 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
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- 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
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
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- 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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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