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May you find great value in these Polished quotes and sayings.
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Perseverance Attitude
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
Stay Alert, and doors will open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To keep your thinking young, stay curious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
It's not that I'm so smart,
it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I have never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely
when we go abroad among men
than when we stay in our chambers.
A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will.
- Henry David Thoreau
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
Happy Birthday!
Today is YOUR day to Dance Lightly With Life.
Have a wonderful day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
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