Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Play as often as you can.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Success is often the result of taking
a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Our connection with Spirit is unbreakable, but often imperceptible.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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