Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
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Related If you shouldn’t blame yourself for minor things you did or didn’t do when someone dies, how can... MARK ROGERSON Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling whe... NATALIA KILLS Anyone can do yardages and more or less pull a club. It is friendship I need more than anything else... PAUL MCGINLEY When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? JODI PICOULT It's not just eating food which increases gastric secretions - even thinking about food can do it. S... MELANIE MCGRICE Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, ... JODI PICOULT We all have one life and we can choose how we want to live it. It's important you realize that, no m... ZOE SUGG It's easier when you have someone in the post, rather than someone driving or doing something fancy. CASSIE HAGER Choice isn’t the same thing as freedom—not when someone else is framing the choices for you. GARTH RISK HALLBERG Why cry for someone when you can laugh next to someone else? ANONYMOUS On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact... CRAIG GROESCHEL Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o... CALVIN COOLIDGE In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o... CALVIN COOLIDGE What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify ... KEN SANDE Rejection Is God’s Protection When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessi... PAMELA CUMMINS If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coff... DAVID MITCHELL Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else. SUZE ORMAN I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's l... J. R. MARTINEZ Clearly if you can do it than I have to be concerned that someone else can as well. HENRY HARRIS All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say s... AIDAN CHAMBERS Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn't thinking about giving someone a kidney. ... GRIZZ CHAPMAN When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. PRUE LEITH You never know that someone cares for you when you care for someone else OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want some... MICHELLE HODKIN It's very important that you tell someone when you are being bullied - someone that you trust. Y... STEPHANIE MCMAHON When we get our money, you can burn kruge to keep you warm." "I'm going to pay someone to burn ... LEIGH BARDUGO You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more fr... SASHA AZEVEDO What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone els... MARY GAITSKILL if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. Wha... ROD DREHER Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about so... IYANLA VANZANT A Greater Person is Someone who PLAN their OWN LIFE, or Someone Else will PLAN to Make YOU ORDINARY. RAJROCKER Our donors are the key to maintaining our supplies. It's always great to do something to help someon... CORTNEY MARTIN Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is lon... LAURA LIPPMAN To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or... DAVID A. BEDNAR It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you an... PHILLIP SWEET I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired... CASSANDRA CLARE Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the ... NORTHRUP CHRISTIANE To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satis... KATHLEEN TIERNEY Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his
limitations. There is more logic i... VICTOR BORGE Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic i... VICTOR BORGE Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of t... CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D. I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, wh... GEORGE TAKEI When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary worl... ROBERT KRULWICH It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say... SIMON SINEK Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important thi... EDMUND HILLARY When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. CASSANDRA CLARE Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you ... TAYLOR SWIFT When you do a selfless act for someone else, you will be rewarded with good karma, which is god's hu... STEVEN ESPINOSA Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in... LOUIS L'AMOUR Impatience blossoms when something becomes more important than someone. In those moments, you need t... WILLIAM P. SMITH You cant make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick. , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love... SHAHID KAPOOR When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting your... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f... VERONICA ROTH There are different kinds of love you experience in life. Loving someone differently doesn't mean lo... NELY CAB Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more log... VICTOR BORGE It's so awful when you need something from someone else, even though you're not sure what it is, and... TERRA ELAN MCVOY Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You ... TED RALL Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else. SOURCE UNKNOWN Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else. Envy is the desire to have what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear of losing what you have. The ... OLIVER MARKUS -you can think you know someone and then they say something or do something and suddenly everything ... CARRIE RYAN A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak. TOM WOLFE What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner a... WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY You can't find someone who believes that one is more important than the other. STEVE FRIEDMAN Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more imp... IVANKA TRUMP I feel that sex should be part of something more meaningful than just being something casual. Televi... CHARLOTTE RAE Life is like a crystal ball of fortune. When it falls into pieces, the people try to grab it. Someon... KAZERONNIE MAK The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let any... RICHARD BACH Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. DAVID LETTERMAN If you wish to have children, please do something for the world you will bring them into. That will ... THICH NHAT HANH The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. An... RAY BRADBURY Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive... JIM BEAVER If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That... MANOJ BHARGAVA You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care... QUEEN LATIFAH I like someone I can have fun with and who can be more laid-back than I am, because it calms me down... ASHLEY TISDALE When you fall into the gutter you tell yourself that you can climb out. Then you notice that you’r... ALEX AVRIO When you look for someone who can change your life, find someone who won’t just change your relati... KAORU SHINMON I'm mainly trying to get the word out to people, ... Look in your pantries and linen closets. Go to ... GEORGE HAYES It's very important when you have someone that don't have anybody, that think they're by themselves.... JAMES FORD Can you do something for someone while you don’t care about her/his reaction, thought or personal ... LILY, PSYCHIC HEALER That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always... RAY BRADBURY Life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don't change anything, you ge... BEN FOLDS Arrogant people could care less about others. They're only interested in themselves. The arrogant pe... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help... PATRICIA HEATON No emotion is more squirmy than feeling embarrassed for someone else MEGAN MCCAFFERTY You can have any political standpoint and find someone else with it. You can be who you are and find... LINDA MOORE When you LOVE someone, you give up something less and receive something more. LORRIN L. LEE Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for... MARK OLIVER EVERETT You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things... LISA KLEYPAS Tell someone in public "Thank You" is good for a time. Showing them you appreciate what they did for... LORRIN L. LEE Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold somethin... PHILIP K. DICK You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is... JULIAN ASSANGE Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably e... TELLER This is kind of a weird thing, but maybe that's one of the reasons why we've settled down and played... STEVE LIDDLE I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone les... CANDICE BERGEN When you love someone, you don't have a choice. 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