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Welcome to these Fruit Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
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
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Happiness is the final and perfect fruit
of obedience to the laws of life.
- Helen Keller
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be not like the sugarcane -
do not hold your sweetness inside.
Be like the fruit tree -
be generous with your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie (inspired by Tagore)
If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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