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May you find great value in these Stead quotes and sayings.
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The things that have acquired unity are these:
Heaven by unity has become clear;
Earth by unity has become steady;
The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;
The Valley by unity has become full;
All things by unity have come into existence.
- Lao Tzu
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Know that life is most joyful when you
neither attempt to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
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
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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