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Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
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What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
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
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory.
Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that?
Offer discretion and discernment for our past
with a broad spectrum of forgiveness.
As for our present moment, delight.
And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Better late than never.
- Proverb
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.
Only you can taste your victories.
Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.
Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences -
for better or worse.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -
for future generations.
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
Literally planting trees for
your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,
but far more important...
use this symbolism - this imagery -
to represent the kind of legacy
you want to leave to future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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