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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton 
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
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
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- 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
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
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
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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