Margin Quotes

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dance with a Light Heart.
I play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

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

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

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

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

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

We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

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

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

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

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

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

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

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

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