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They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
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
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
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
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
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
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
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
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
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
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
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
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Success is often the result of taking
a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
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)
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is my day to laugh at life.
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
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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