All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
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
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Better late than never.
- Proverb
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- 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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