A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
Every spirit makes its house,
and we can give a shrewd guess
from the house to the inhabitant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter
It is far more important to be able to hit the target
than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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