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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Be Utterly and Dependably Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile;
giggle your laugh;
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- commonly but falsely attributed to Dr. Seuss,
this misquote consists of the Bernard Baruch quote,
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
with additional words added anonymously.
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Today Is My Day To Practice Whimsey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't project your past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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