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Thoughts are things, and all the things in one's life
have a thought that precedes them.
- Ernest Holmes
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.
Endings: what must precede new beginnings.
Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.
Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -
as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourish
in the decay of last year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great men, unknown to their generation,
have their fame among the great who have preceded them,
and all true worldly fame subsides
from their high estimate beyond the stars.
- Henry David Thoreau
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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