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The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Related topics: Wisdom Envy Solitude Self Being-Alone
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens
reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that a flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky
and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
When the heart-mind opens, the nectar of its flower is Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon
The career of a sage is of two kinds:
He is either honored by all in the world,
Like a flower waving its head,
Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
- Lao Tzu
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
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)
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What if we just pretended that life was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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)
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Just Do it!
- Nike ad
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- 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 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
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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