When life seems overwhelming, just step back for a day.
Consider what is most important.
Focus on the crucial issues in your life.
Just let the rest of your upsets go.
You can't fix the whole world, but you can still make a difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett
Are you feeling stressed and upset?
If so, you are worrying about tomorrow.
Events that have already occurred may cause you regret,
but they only appear to cause worry.
If you just lost your job, you are not worrying about losing your job -
that already happened.
You are worrying about paying your bills and finding a new job.
Those are worries about tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
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
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
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
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- 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
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- 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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
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
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
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 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
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
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
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
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- 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
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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