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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Free-Will
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Everybody likes a compliment.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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
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
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- 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
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
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
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
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
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- 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
The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like an Owl, I am Alert, Patient, and Objective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a Dolphin, I am Graceful, Powerful, and Compassionate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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