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The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Related topics: Motivational Inspirational
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha 
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
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Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
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The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams
and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined,
you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have learned, that if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
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The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
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Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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You are perfect exactly the way you are.
- Werner Erhard
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Dance... enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
Eternity:
I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my being
My curiosity unbound, I test the limits
of the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end which is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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