Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
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He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
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
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
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that you are never alone.
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I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
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
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Never quit.
- Anonymous
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
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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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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