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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
The truth of things is the chief nutriment
of superior intellects.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
Together we must learn how to compose differences,
not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
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
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
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
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
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
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
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
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
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
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 often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
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)
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
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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