Strain Quotes

There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln

The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare

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

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

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

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)

Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

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

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

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