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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by William Penn.
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
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
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
To be a beneficial presence in the world,
cultivate a conscious awareness of your unity with Spirit.
Expect good in your own life.
Desire good for all others as well.
See and affirm abundant blessings of peace,
health, and plenty for everyone.
Align your thoughts with peace and happiness,
and realize that these qualities are your true nature.
- Kathy Juline
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not to expect to be translated from
despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems,
for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
How wrong is it for women to expect
the man to build the world she wants,
rather than set out to create it herself.
- Anais Nin
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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