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The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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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
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
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
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
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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