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Welcome to these Been Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Inspirational Values Live-By
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
The highest thinkers of the ages,
the seers of the tribes and the nations,
have been optimists.
- Helen Keller
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world has always been in an uproar,
and it always will be.
Choose Peace. Choose to live with Peace.
Choose to interact peacefully with everyone -
especially those whose instinct is not to be peaceful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a Butterfly, I have been Reborn
with Bold Colors and Strong Wings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I accept everything that ever has been,
with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengeance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
I have compassion for everyone who has ever
been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
Grace has been defined as the outward expression
of the inward harmony of the soul.
- William Hazlitt
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- Anonymous
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You always have everything you need, right here, right now.
Do you know how I know? You're still here.
If you hadn't always been given everything you ever needed,
you wouldn't be here.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Time has been transformed, and we have changed;
it has advanced and set us in motion;
it has unveiled its face,
inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
- Khalil Gibran
On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
Most of us believe that we have
been betrayed by someone outside of us -
in other words someone has done something to hurt us,
been dishonest or broken a promise made:
some trust in some concept was broken.
Indeed someone may have taken an action
that took only their needs into consideration,
they may have not followed through on a promise made,
and they may have not told you the truth.
But their actions have nothing to do with you
and have everything to do with them.
That's why no one can do anything TO you.
They can take actions that involve you that you may not like -
according to your point of view.
But you are not a victim, no way, no how.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
I forgive everyone for every "wrong"
that I believe they have ever inflicted upon me.
I forgive them for my own sake,
that I may release the venom -
the anger and resentment within myself -
and regain my joy and serenity.
I have compassion for everyone who has ever
been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until
we have been stuck, incapacitated,
or blown off course for awhile.
- David Whyte
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
- Adrian Rogers
I accept that no one else has ever been to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche
that must have been left behind in the Sixties,
that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
- John Lennon
I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your innermost core has always been pure.
Purity is intrinsic to you,
it cannot be taken away.
- Osho
Nobody ever gets to see what could have been.
- the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sand...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Pay attention.
Don't let resentments or pessimism answer for you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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