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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
by Saint Francis de Sales

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

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Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Never Quotes and Sayings

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain

One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- 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

"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

We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

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

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham

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

We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- 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

Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard

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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We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung

The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)

Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous

A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

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