One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
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Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN 7 Rules to a Happy Life:
1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
LIL WAYNE Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My...Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep
CHARLAINE HARRIS I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, ...
CHARLAINE HARRIS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE Be the Best YOU you can BE because only YOU can do that.
LORRIN L. LEE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Advice to my younger self:
1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hur...
GERMANY KENT Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Sometimes the best plan is to simply take action and the plan will then become clearer...
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The...
B. F. SKINNER To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Life...is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball ga...
ANITA BROOKNER In most situations, the best you can do…is simply to do the best that you can.
CLIFFORD COHEN I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactles...
DAVID DAVIS I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH One of the key things here is. . .the road infrastructure to improve Canada-U.S. trade, that's one o...
DALE ORR Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball g...
ANITA BROOKNER Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
JOSH BILLINGS One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of...
OLIN MILLER One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of...
OLIN MILLER Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE Sometimes best things in life turns out to be worst and teach us lessons; lessons limited to the min...
SAURABH OBEROI To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature so...
LOUIS TOMLINSON One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
JOSH BILLINGS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
JAMES H. ROBINSON Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON As you see you can't change what has happen in past if I could I do my best to don't happen in other...
DEYTH BANGER Sometimes the best conversation between two people is simply being with each other ...in silence.
LORRIN L. LEE Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Keep doing what you do best and you’ll be the best at what you do, which is simply yet impeccably ...
YAHALI ZEINFELD The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’...
JON EDGELL REVISITING THE LIST
1. Kiss Estelle
Okay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. A...
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ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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