Food for Thought Sayings and Quotations

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Food for Thought

Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake

All kids are gifted: some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
Source Unknown

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
Earl Gray Stevens

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
and today is a gift;
that’s why they call it the present.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Never give up on anybody.
Hubert H. Humphrey

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao-Tzu

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

The world, the race, the soul--in space and time the universes,
All bound as is befitting each--all surely going somewhere.
Walt Whitman

Always hold your head up,
but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max L. Forman

Becoming a star may not be in your destiny,
but being the best that you can be is a goal
you can set for yourselves.
Bryan Lindsay

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. Mohandas K. Gandhi

There’s good in everybody.
Boost.
Don’t knock.
Warren G. Harding

Some people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
Roger Miller
{ And some people sing and dance. }

We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Unknown

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

The ideals which have always shown before me
and filled me with the joy of living
are goodness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
Joseph Campbell

Desire nothing for yourself,
which you do not desire for others.
Spinoza

It is not of so much consequence what you say,
as how you say it.
Alexandra Smith

I got a simple rule about everybody.
If you don’t treat me right – shame on you.
Louis Armstrong

When you are content to be simply yourself and
don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu

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