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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Humbug.
Most of us seldom let the outrageous
part of ourselves out to play.
Notice that I didn't say "never," I said "seldom."
Halloween is one of those exceptions.
While there are certainly many "bah humbug" houses on our street,
more than half the houses wear an acknowledgement of Halloween -
and nothing about Halloween is NOT outrageous.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Today's problems can seldom be solved using yesterday's answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- 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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
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
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
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
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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