The body is an instrument which
only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls,
so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
- 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
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
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
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
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
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
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)
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
"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)
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
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
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
You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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
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
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.
That must be maintained, for it is
the only safeguard of our liberties.
- Abraham Lincoln
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what nobody else can do for you.
Omit to do anything else.
- Henry David Thoreau
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Bold, Wild, and Colorful -
Why Be Anything Less?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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
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
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