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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)
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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.
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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Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
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
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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