Question:

What are some life quotes?

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SOME LITTLE GEMS FOR YOU!

KINDNESS AND COURAGE.

Life is mostly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone;
Kindness in another's trouble;
Courage in your own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon.

ON THE OFFICE WALL.

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song,
But the man worthwhile
Is the man who can smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
When the whole blamed world seems gone to pot,
And business on the bum,
A lifted chin and a two-cent grin
Help some, my boy, help some!

My Faves

A few more gems
If I don't quote source it is because I have lost it a long time ago!!!
words that make me whell!
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The rain is a very sad lady.
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If I expose my nakedness,
as a person to you-
Do not make me
feel shame!
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Live by your own standards,
other people's will kill you.
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As you try to live your life,
remember others are trying to livew theirs!
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Just before their periods,
women behave the way men do all the time!
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What is a hero?
Primarily one who has conquered his fears
Henry Miller
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I can help you to accept
and open yourself
mostly by accepting and revealing
myself to you
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The greatest kindness
I have to offer you
is always: the truth
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The behavior of the human being
is always unpredictable.
simply because
it
is
free!*
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Emotional Poignancy

Your slightest look
easily will unclose me
though I have closed
myself as fingers,
you open
always
petal by petal
myself as spring
opens,
(Touching skillfully,
mysteriously )
her first rose.
E.E.Cummings
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Most of us feel that
others will not tolerate
such emotional honesty in communication
We would rather defend our dishonesty
on the grounds that it
might hurt others;
and having rationalized our
phoniness into nobility
we settle for the superficial.
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The fully human person is in deep and meaningful contact with the world outside of him.
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The games we play always follow the programme
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"sorry, bbut theat is the way I am.....I was like this in the beginning, am now, ever more shall be". A handy motto and delusion to have around you,
If you don't want to grow up!
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Within each of us lies the power of our consent.
To health and to sickness, to riches and to poverty,
To freedom and to slavery
It is we who rule these things,
and not another.
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You teach best
what you most need to learn
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You are led through your lifetime
by the inner learning creature,
the playful spiritual being
that is your real self
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Don't turn away from possible futures
before you're certain
you don't have anything to learn from them

Do it

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It
has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become
porcelain."
--Mildred W. Struven

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I
am, then I can change."
--Carl Rogers

"I'll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone
else has got to say."
--Elizabeth C. Gaskell

Inspirational

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
--Ellen Glasgow

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into
its nest."
--J.G. Holland

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's."
--Henry Moore

"What else are we gonna live by if not dreams?"
--Jill Robinson

"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours."
--Henry David Thoreau

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn
one into the other."
--Douglas Everett

Facing life

"Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it!" --Joseph Conrad

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck." --Katharine Hepburn

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." --Howard W. Newton

In order to get, give: "Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you." --Madeline Bridges

"There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world." --Oscar Hammerstein II

"The love you take / Is equal to the love you make." --John Lennon & Paul McCartney

Chances

You have to start somewhere - and you DO have to start!:

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that
it shall never have a beginning."
--John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work
never begun."
--Christina Rossetti

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind."
--Bulgarian proverb

"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve."
--Nancy Hale

"It is never right to compromise with dishonesty."
--Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

"The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones."
--Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Know yourself

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
--Albert Camus

"Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen."
--Marge Piercy

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."
--Scottish proverb

Don't give in to despair:

Strive to be in a position to do it your way:

"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life."
--Diane Ackerman

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
--William Blake