THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I reach toward the shining mountains,
beyond the fog of daily worries.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
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
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
A Joyful Life comes from zigging as Life zigs,
and zagging as it zags.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The time comes upon every public man
when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Abraham Lincoln
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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