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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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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
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage,
you get a lot more sunshine in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
You're just left with yourself all the time,
whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your
own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
There is always the danger that we may
just do the work for the sake of the work.
This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -
that we do it to God, to Christ,
and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
- Mother Teresa
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
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
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I just want to do God's will.
And he's allowed me to go to the mountain.
And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land!
I may not get there with you,
but I want you to know tonight that
we as a people will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- 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
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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