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What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Values Happiness

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

I believe in equality for everyone,
except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous

Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill

A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain

Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill

No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi

You have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

I have no dress except the one I wear every day.
If you are going to be kind enough to give me one,
please let it be practical and dark
so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie

When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Exception Quotes and Sayings

It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes

I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge,
that has ever been gathered at the White House -
with the possible exception of
when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F. Kennedy

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter

It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Well Quotes and Sayings

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde

Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder

It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch

Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

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 everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous

Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)

If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein

If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie