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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
Like a Dolphin, I am Graceful, Powerful, and Compassionate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a Butterfly, I have been Reborn
with Bold Colors and Strong Wings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Confession of errors is like a broom
which sweeps away the dirt
and leaves the surface brighter and clearer.
I feel stronger for confession.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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