No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
A person who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
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
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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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