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Welcome to these Aright Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
To be a beneficial presence in the world,
cultivate a conscious awareness of your unity with Spirit.
Expect good in your own life.
Desire good for all others as well.
See and affirm abundant blessings of peace,
health, and plenty for everyone.
Align your thoughts with peace and happiness,
and realize that these qualities are your true nature.
- Kathy Juline
When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
We are not to expect to be translated from
despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
How wrong is it for women to expect
the man to build the world she wants,
rather than set out to create it herself.
- Anais Nin
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems,
for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
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
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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