The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
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)
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
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
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
The people are hungry:
It is because those in authority
eat up too much in taxes.
- Lao Tzu
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
- Kamran Hamid
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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