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There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
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What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Each day, I am healthier, younger,
stronger, more comfortable,
and more joyful than the day before.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
From far beyond this life,
I hear the call.
From place beyond all place,
I feel the call.
From time before all time,
I know the call.
From one before all ones,
I am the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before you can forgive others,
you must be a person whose forgiveness matters.
Before you can have gratitude for your life,
you must believe that your life has value.
Before your choices have value,
you must feel that you yourself have value.
Before you can dream a great dream for your future,
you have to believe that your future matters.
Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment,
before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,
"Fall seven times, stand up eight,"
you must believe that your life matters.
Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it.
And, before you can feel unity with,
and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,
you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today, try something you have never tried before.
Perhaps just a food that is new to you -
perhaps a whole new way of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Before the throne of the Almighty,
man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.
For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now.
When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.
We are seeing what is before us.
- John Bradshaw
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau
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