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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire,
live by love though the stars walk backward.
- e. e. cummings
I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
- Jimmy Carter
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
It takes a big cat to be number 2.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
God always takes the simplest way.
- Albert Einstein
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
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
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Sheri Rosenthal
He is a drunkard who takes more than
three glasses though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus
I am the owner of my choices.
I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold...
regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess
that particular perspective.
It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses.
I will look into that mirror little bits at a time.
SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able.
This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Bold Light of Spirit:
Out of the darkness and into the light,
Open our eyes and behold such a sight.
Brilliance of day takes the place of the night,
Boldness and courage are swords of His Might.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
I think the person who takes a job in order to live -
that is to say, for the money -
has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell
Regrets and their cousins, resentments,
are a huge cause of self-inflicted suffering.
Sometimes it takes years of psychotherapy
to gain freedom from regrets about what you did or did not do,
and freedom from resentment over what others did or did not do.
Sometimes it takes a lifetime of self-talk to remember
to put the past in the past where it belongs.
However, sometimes a simple symbolic act can help immeasurably
to grant ourselves freedom from the past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes more than just a good looking body.
You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- Epictetus
Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs
and does not help to solve them, is no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind;
it requires the same effort of the brain
that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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 must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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