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We make our friends; we make our enemies;
by Gilbert K. Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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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

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- 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

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

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

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie