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It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now.
When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.
We are seeing what is before us.
- John Bradshaw
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw
Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Go ahead, make my day.
- the movie Sudden Impact (1983)
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
God doesn't make junk.
- Anonymous
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don't know, I don't care,
and it doesn't make any difference!
- Albert Einstein
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.
And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
- John Lennon
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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