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The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Related topics: Spiritual Intention
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained.
- Marie Curie
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
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