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Welcome to these Unwritten Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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The greatest battle of all is simply... Life.
This is no child's game. This is the big one -
the Super Bowl - the Game of all games.
The rules of Life are unwritten and unknown.
Perhaps, one could say that there are no rules.
The Judge has ultimate power.
She can call the game at any time - for any reason.
The penalties in the Game are completely arbitrary -
in both timing and severity.
Penalty for what, we ask?
The Judge is silent.
How can I win the Game?
"You can never win," comes the answer,
"So just take pleasure in playing the Game."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
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
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves,
and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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