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Welcome to these Bill Watterson Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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 don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
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
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
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
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