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Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Spirit is always waiting to rush into us,
but we are too full of worldly things.
It is like trying to pour fine wine into a cup filled with mud -
the wine is waiting, but the mud must be removed first.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot
When you open up to the ultimate,
immediately it pours into you.
You are no longer an ordinary human being -
you have transcended.
Your insight has become the
insight of the whole existence.
Now you are no longer separate -
you have found your roots.
- Osho
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Probably the happiest period in life
most frequently is in middle age,
when the eager passions of youth are cooled,
and the infirmities of age not yet begun;
as we see that the shadows,
which are at morning and evening so large,
almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Thank you, gentlemen. Someday I will repay you,
unless of course I can't find you, or if I forget.
- the movie Shrek 2
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
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
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
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
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know that to find comfort, relax into the arms of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find,
but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.
- Sommeil Liberosensa
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
When we got into office, the thing
that surprised me most
was to find that things were just as bad
as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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