It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Christian voters should start looking
at global warming and extreme poverty
as religious issues that speak to the culture of life.
- Al Franken
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
Persevere in moving toward highly worthwhile but difficult goals.
In smaller issues, take an easier course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This physical world is to our imagination as ice is to water -
pure water forms pure ice - dirty water forms dirty ice.
Consider how much easier it is to purify water before it freezes
than it is to chip the impurities from the solid ice.
So also, it is much easier to purify your thoughts
before they manifest into physical reality,
than to try to cut the cancerous impurities from solid reality
after you have manifested your thoughts into physical form.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In many ways, it is easier to be a good giver than a good receiver.
The giver chooses the gift and the timing.
More important, societal and religious traditions
tend to elevate the status of giver and lower the status of receiver.
When the Bible (Acts 20:32-35) speaks of it being
more blessed to give than to receive,
I believe that a better translation might be
"take" rather than "receive," as the context
of that passage is "coveting."
Certainly there is nothing blessed about coveting,
stealing, begging, or demanding,
however the skill of graciously receiving a freely offered gift
is another matter entirely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.
Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends
and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it.
- John Lennon
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
I put aside personal preferences and step forward to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead
We believe that if men have the talent
to invent new machines that put men out of work,
they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is relieved and gay when he has
put his heart into his work and done his best;
but what he has said or done otherwise
shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got
a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon,
it will be an entire nation.
For all of us must work to put him there.
- John F. Kennedy
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Angry and happy don't mix.
Flush out the angry,
and the happy has a place to put down roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes
which a man can change at will - and put on at will?
Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying
as to put the right man in the right place.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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