I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin
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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
- Max Lucado
Worrying is like a rocking chair,
it gives you something to do,
but it gets you nowhere.
- Glenn Turner
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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