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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Nan Fairbrother.
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
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The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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
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
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
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
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)
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
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)
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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)
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
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 will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
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
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
In your days - things like this happen to you...
You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake,
and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired -
but I don't want you to miss this."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
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
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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