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Welcome to these Greenly Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings
Related topics: Gratitude
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
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
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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