Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Let us all be brave enough
to die the death of a martyr,
but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Michel de Montaigne
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Through Qigong, one learns to quiet the mind
and allow communion with the One.
We call the One "Tao," but you may be more comfortable
with a term like "Holy Spirit," or "God,"
as long as you don't start visualizing
an old man on a throne floating in the sky.
The One is everything, and everything is the One.
Each of us is the One, and the One is inside each of us.
Just remember that it's an infinity thing -
the tiniest bit of infinity is still infinite.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer:
Lord God, Holy Spirit, Giver of All Light,
Bless and Keep All Those of This World.
Grant Us Your Peace, Your Light, Your Love.
Grant Us Complete Renewal of Body, Mind and Spirit -
Continual Rebirth in Newness of Life.
Let Your Light Shine Upon Us and Be Gracious to Us.
Grant to Each and Every One of Us:
Health, Comfort, Joy, Peace Within Ourselves,
Peace Within Our Families, Peace Within Our Communities,
and Peace among All those This World.
Grant That I May Be an Instrument of Thy Peace.
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Peace, Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Comfort, Thy Joy,
to All Those Around Me and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More. AMEN.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I offer gentle understanding to myself.
I position myself in love, not fear.
I look behind me with forgiveness.
I look forward with festive anticipation.
I embrace this holy moment and assert,
"Now. This moment is the moment to love,
the moment to serve, the moment to seize
the legacy instead of the small.
Now. Now I will live large, love boldly,
reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
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