Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. ...
by Bill Watterson

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus

Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu

Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus

I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie