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Welcome to these Unconsidered Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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
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
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
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
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- 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
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- 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
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
- Bono
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Like an Eagle, I Soar High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
A sloth lives a pretty good life, s-l-o-w-l-y.
Maybe we have something to learn from him.
Some days, being sloth-like may be just what you need
to avoid being consumed by urgency.
- 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
Like a Dolphin, I am Graceful, Powerful, and Compassionate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Like a Chameleon, I Adapt to Changing Circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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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