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There's a couple of things they don't teach you
by The Simpsons

There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)

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We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Just because I don't care,
doesn't mean I don't understand.
- Matt Groening's TV series The Simpsons.

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Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

 

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

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

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung

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