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There are two kinds of stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.
- Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
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I want to do it because I want to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home,
and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
- Friedrich Halm
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous
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