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(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation,
and, on the other, to morals.
The game of thought is, on the appearance
of one of these two sides,
to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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