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The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton 
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
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
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
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
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
God is Within You!
You yourself are the creator.
If you find that place within you
from which you brought this thing about,
you will be able to live with it and affirm it,
perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
- Joseph Campbell
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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