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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Stoplight.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
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An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
I Am One With Spirit and All Creation -
I give thanks for the unity of all creation
and for everything that has brought me to this moment.
I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
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
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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