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The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
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The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
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There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage,
a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
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If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
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Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
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Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
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There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
When you open up to the ultimate,
immediately it pours into you.
You are no longer an ordinary human being -
you have transcended.
Your insight has become the
insight of the whole existence.
Now you are no longer separate -
you have found your roots.
- Osho
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
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
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
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)
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
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