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The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

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Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow

None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma

They have come up with a perfect understanding.
He won't try to run her life,
and he won't try to run his, either.
- Anonymous

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors

I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill

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

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

Lighten up, have a rainbows and butterflies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

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

When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley

Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill

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

After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash

No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)

If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter

It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard

My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner

I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition
will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.
I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk

Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore
when you can't let go.
- Anonymous

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

Get up-close-and-personal:
Life looks different when you really get involved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is magnificent - just as it comes.
Life has no need for fancy clothes, or lipstick.
Life is no pig.
Our life is the greatest gift of all creation.
When we are unhappy with life -
when we are shocked by the stock market,
or dismayed by our choice of political candidates,
let us not lash out in anger.
But also, let us not try to pretty up life
with some lipstick and some party clothes.
See life clearly - no rose colored glasses -
and then CHOOSE to love life.
CHOOSE to be happy, be joyful, be grateful,
be forgiving of everyone and of every act
we believe has hurt us.
Life just "IS."
We get to CHOOSE our relationship with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The dream was always running ahead of me.
To catch up, to live for a moment
in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- Anais Nin

We cannot solve a problem by saying,
"It's not my problem."
We cannot solve a problem by hoping that
someone else will solve it for us.
I can solve a problem only when I say,
"This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it.
- M. Scott Peck

In three words, I can sum up everything
I've learned about life - it goes on.
- Robert Frost

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie