The trick is growing up without growing old. ...
by Casey Stengel

The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

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The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury

The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong

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

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage,
a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman

Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung

Our growing softness,
our increasing lack of physical fitness,
is a menace to our security.
- John F. Kennedy

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca

A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Never give up.
- Anonymous

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

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

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

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