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THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
I reach toward the shining mountains,
beyond the fog of daily worries.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
- Max Lucado
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes;
so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing,
whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- Nelson Mandela
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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