Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
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
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
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)
Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
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
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
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
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
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
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
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
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
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
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
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
All things appear and disappear
because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation to everything else.
- The Buddha
I didn't want to marry anybody else in town.
I want my baby to look like you.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
One's own religion is after all
a matter between oneself
and one's Maker and no one else's.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do what nobody else can do for you.
Omit to do anything else.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca
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
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -
after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
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
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
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
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
- Margaret Mead
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is
and knowing something about how it is in this moment.
It�s not about getting somewhere else,
but about allowing yourself to be where you already are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is nothing to do - and the River flows.
There is nothing to say - and the River flows.
There is nothing to think - and the River flows.
There is nothing to feel - and the River flows.
The River flows - and all else is our drama.
The River flows - and all else is our invention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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