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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Your talent is God's gift to you.
- Leo Buscaglia
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Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America,
the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry,
and of criminal inquiry too.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
There are a number of things wrong with Washington.
One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
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