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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha 
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
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
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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