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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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- 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
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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
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
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
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
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
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You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Know that you are never alone.
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Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Never quit.
- Anonymous
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
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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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