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It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What if we just pretended that life was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
- Lao Tzu
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know that joy is a choice, but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline
when you're a winner, when you're number one.
What you've got to have is faith and discipline
when you're not yet a winner.
- Vince Lombardi
Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful
than the wound we suffered,
to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
Rainbows and butterflies are themselves beautiful and highly symbolic,
but they are also representative of
all the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People with great gifts are easy to find,
but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil
and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women,
of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career.
Well, it has not been easy.
- Marie Curie
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
While civilization has been improving our houses,
it has not equally improved
the men who are to inhabit them.
It has created palaces, but it was
not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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