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Welcome to these Waving Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
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
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself,
but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean,
so must I never live my life for itself,
but always in the experience which is going on around me.
- Albert Schweitzer
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
- Thomas Jefferson
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves.
- Trieu Thi Trinh
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I skip on the beach, and play with the waves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is my day to practice whimsey,
skip on the beach, and play with the waves,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade my story,
find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to practice whimsey,
skip on the beach, and play with the waves,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade your story,
find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unpredictable and irregular happenings
of life's cycles are an inherent part of their nature.
There are droughts and heat waves, injuries occur.
The lion eats the zebra -
one is nourished, one dies - neither failed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
- Dr. Seuss
Christmas ... is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
Every day is Christmas when you are open to receiving love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
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
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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