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Welcome to these Misunderstood Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- 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
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
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're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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