People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;
I loathe and despise the groups
they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups.
A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- The Buddha
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- 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
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
This [the Holocaust] must never happen again. ...
Be vigilant about your rights.
Care about the rights and human dignity of others.
When the rights of any group, no matter how small,
no matter how marginal, are violated,
your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers, Ph.D., Professor of History,
University of Pennsylvania, in the closing remarks
of his six-hour Teaching Company audio lecture series
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
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
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- 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
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
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
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
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
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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 anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Never give up.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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