Is it bigger than breadbox?
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
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
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Be Utterly and Dependably Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
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