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Welcome to these Spongy Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
Related topics: Nature
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
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
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace begins with me.
- Anonymous
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
I allow life to wash over me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to
celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
My bold life awaits me. I answer the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am a Paradox - a Duality - and yet an Entirely Unified ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say "YES" to the opportunities life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love, without condition, myself,
all those around me,
and all those in my thoughts,
this day and evermore. Amen
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I unconditionally forgive myself for everything
that I have ever done, said, or thought
that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have Gratitude for Everything
that has brought me to this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I constantly seek excellence
in all domains that truly matter to me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every day I give thanks that I am me,
and that everything that has ever occurred in my life
happened exactly as it did -
however unpleasant it may have appeared at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
I grant myself the Honor of being ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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