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I am not the Catholic candidate for President.
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President,
who happens also to be a Catholic.
- John F. Kennedy
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Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
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