Paradoxical Quote of the Day

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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

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

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

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- 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

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

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

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

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

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

Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

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

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

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

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

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

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

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

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

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

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

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

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

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

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

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

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

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

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

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

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

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

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

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

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