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Welcome to these Cutting Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Related topics: Wisdom
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
The rite of the rings appeals yet appalls:
a cutting, a joining, a losing, a gaining.
One becomes half, as two become one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life,
or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life,
or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.
The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
This physical world is to our imagination as ice is to water -
pure water forms pure ice - dirty water forms dirty ice.
Consider how much easier it is to purify water before it freezes
than it is to chip the impurities from the solid ice.
So also, it is much easier to purify your thoughts
before they manifest into physical reality,
than to try to cut the cancerous impurities from solid reality
after you have manifested your thoughts into physical form.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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)
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
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
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Grin your smile;
giggle your laugh;
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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