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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
If everyone demanded peace
instead of another television set,
then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
This world of ours... must avoid becoming
a community of dreadful fear and hate,
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
- Sheri Rosenthal
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
I offer gentle understanding to myself.
I position myself in love, not fear.
I look behind me with forgiveness.
I look forward with festive anticipation.
I embrace this holy moment and assert,
"Now. This moment is the moment to love,
the moment to serve, the moment to seize
the legacy instead of the small.
Now. Now I will live large, love boldly,
reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
I believe in equality for everyone,
except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
I am free of prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I forgive everyone for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two kinds of stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.
- Amelia Earhart
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
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
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
I unconditionally forgive everyone for all hurt
that I have ever experienced in the presence of their actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone I Love Becomes My Family -
and I Love Everyone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Today, I See Spirit In The Face of Everyone I Meet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I love everyone, unconditionally,
at all times, exactly as they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Let everyone try and find that
as a result of daily prayer
he adds something new to his life,
something with which nothing can be compared.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everyone is the keeper of a dream
- Oprah Winfrey
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll
I honor everyone and honor all points-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice.
It is within everyone.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone should be respected as an individual,
but no one idolized.
- Albert Einstein
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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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