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Welcome to these Vain Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Vain and Love.
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess,
we act and think in vain,
and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
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We will bankrupt ourselves in
the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
How vain it is to sit down to write
when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root,
and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount
of time and money on the needy
is doing the most by his mode of life
to produce that misery
which he strives in vain to relieve.
- Henry David Thoreau
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
Play as often as you can.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Our connection with Spirit is unbreakable, but often imperceptible.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
Whenever you choose to carry resentment and hatred,
you are shouldering an immense burden that damages
your happiness, and often your health.
Does it matter that your resentment and hatred are "justified?"
Only you suffer - not the person you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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