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Welcome to these Grapple Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
What if happiness were found in the serenity of simple pleasures.
What if we didn't need the newest gizmo... the highest high?
What if happiness is in the air we breathe...
slowly, deeply, and consciously?
What if happiness is one fresh grape, savored with gratitude?
What if happiness is in our oneness with all creation?
What if happiness is about enjoying life exactly as it comes to us -
without chasing after it?
What if happiness is something we CHOOSE...
regardless of our circumstances?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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