The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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 person who you're with most in life is yourself
and if you don't like yourself,
you're always with somebody you don't like.
- Marc S. Lewis
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what nobody else can do for you.
Omit to do anything else.
- Henry David Thoreau
One's own religion is after all
a matter between oneself
and one's Maker and no one else's.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When you follow your bliss... doors will open
where you would not have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
Don't let anyone else take the measure
of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are.
- Margaret Spellings
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
The career of a sage is of two kinds:
He is either honored by all in the world,
Like a flower waving its head,
Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
- Lao Tzu
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
- Margaret Mead
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
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
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Today, walking the beach, I was reminded of the bounty
of the earth in the form of wild blackberries -
a free feast, with no one else bothering to partake.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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