Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice,
more drunkards than thirst,
and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
- The Buddha
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ordinary life does not interest me.
I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists,
searching for the marvelous.
- Anais Nin
The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
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)
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice,
I would have English Channels round every country.
And the atmosphere would be such that
anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
- Winston Churchill
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
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Use what language you will,
you can never say anything but what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.
That must be maintained, for it is
the only safeguard of our liberties.
- Abraham Lincoln
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing
and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
I do not hold fear about what is happening in the world.
I am responsible for how I conduct myself in the events of my days,
and endeavor to not dwell in fear about anything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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