I get bored very easily, ...
I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive
if I'm repeating something I'm good at.
So I'm always looking for new challenges.
- Jewel
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am bored with it all.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Like an Eagle, I Soar High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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