The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
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He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
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
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I haven't got any special religion this morning.
My God is the God of Walkers.
If you walk hard enough,
you probably don't need any other god.
- Bruce Chatwin
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Let us all be brave enough
to die the death of a martyr,
but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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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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