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G. K. Chesterton Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by G. K. Chesterton
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Related topics: Motivational Attitude
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
You Quotes and Sayings
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
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Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
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