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We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
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
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Many hands make light work.
- 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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
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
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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