Fences Quotes

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

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The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

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

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
- Dr. Seuss

I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Every day is a good day to make a resolution
for beginning a new way of living,
but the New Year's Day holiday provides a good focus
for reviewing our lives and resolving
to live each day with conscious attention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For me, one of the greatest things about living in the United States
is that we have a national holiday - Thanksgiving Day -
dedicated to honoring gratitude.
Having gratitude is one of the keys to a happy life.
Let every day be a day of profound thanksgiving.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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