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Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
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It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Politeness is organized indifference.
- Paul Valery
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
On this day, as on every day,
we Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving.
We have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring us to this moment.
We give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of our courage
and the cold sweat of our fear.
We accept gratefully the entirety
of our past and our present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
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
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Play as often as you can.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Success is often the result of taking
a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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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