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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Defense
Minor
Troubles
Major
Against
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
Life
Hope
Destination
Sense
Energy
Significant
Fact
Most
Provides
Get
Human
Human Beings
Capacity
Beings
Started
Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
Oprah Winfrey
Women
People
Problem
Sense
Every
Say
Has-Been
Would
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Some
Over
Most
Been
Years
Encountered
Self-Worth
Lacking
Dysfunction
Them
Root
Ever
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
P. T. Barnum
Beautiful
Freedom
Woman
Beautiful Woman
Whatever
Sense
Purity
Scenery
Attendance
Freedom From
Like
Attractiveness
Rock
Nook
Forest
Romance
Depends
Grand
Lovely
Low
Much
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
Paul Tsongas
Values
Sense
Guardians
Back
Our
Ancestors
Must
Sacredness
Reach
Reaching
Continuum
Legacy
Just
Children
Fundamental
We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
Ram Dass
Friendship
Needs
Together
Sense
Other
Others
Relationships
Our
Security
Some
Come
Identified
Because
Very
Often
Refuge
Much
Fulfill
Each
Level
Symbiotic
Need
The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?
Richard P. Feynman
Life
Insects
Sense
Flower
Adds
Evolved
See
Fact
Colors
Attract
Also
Does
Aesthetic
Exist
Question
Order
Forms
Interesting
Lower
Means
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
Saint Basil
Words
Sometimes
Sickness
Men
Same Thing
Sense
Think
Honey
Destroyed
Critic
Eye
See
Writer
Takes
Force
Frequently
Does
Sour
Exist
Inferior
Diseased
Taste
Same
Regard
Place
Which
Notes
Many
Whose
Thing
Things
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wisdom
World
Degree
Sense
Uncommon
Calls
Common
Common Sense
Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.
Scott Weiland
Life
Journey
You
Sometimes
Sense
Enjoy
Unless
Take
Make
Any
Granted
There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.
Shakti Gawain
Life
Wisdom
Knowledge
Wonderful
Sense
Everyone
Our
Everything
Tells
Intuition
Given
Through
True
Feels
Knowing
Force
Within
Access
Source
Exists
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Any
Any Given Moment
Us
Moment
Deep
Each
Each One
Resides
Right
Inner
Universal
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
Shania Twain
Life
Trust
Honesty
Compassion
Miserable
Lost
Sense
Down
Consider
Emotional
Never
Mess
Became
Bed
Go
Been
Up
Get
Just
Wanted
Crashed
Whole
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
Sharon Salzberg
Art
Strength
Compassion
Power
Isolation
Sense
Community
Difficult
Thinking
Response
Rigid
Clarity
Learn
Redefining
Practicing
Go
Cultivating
Situations
While
Fierce
Letting
Letting Go
One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.
Sonny Perdue
Life
Great
Freedom
You
Pilot
Perspective
Sky
Sense
Seeing
Through
Great Sense
Joys
Up
Get
Being
Different
Soaring
Different Perspective
Ground
Apparent
Things
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Stephen Covey
Strength
Great
Character
Heart
Great Deal
Values
Sense
Possess
Out
Security
Must
Rather
Takes
Himself
Principles
Deal
Genuinely
Quickly
Than
Person
Order
Pity
Apologize
Deep
Fundamental
Fundamental Principles
My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.
Steven Wright
Time
Young
Sense
Secret
Staying
Having
No Sense
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Thom Yorke
Music
Important
Sense
Think
About
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Escape
The Most Important
Thing
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall
Today
Freedom
Constitution
Speak
Decency
Sense
Realistic
Other
Several
Those
Corrective
Blacks
Only
Document
Fairness
Because
Cherish
Amendment
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Darkness
Light
Abyss
Sense
Our
Tells
Above
Between
Existence
Rocks
Crack
Cradle
Common
Common Sense
Us
Brief
Two
I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
W. Bruce Cameron
Positive
Art
Home
Beer
Peace
Positive Energy
Sense
Energy
Ancient
Read
Well-Being
Same
Chinese
Bring
The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations... In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.
William H. McRaven
Technology
Age
Men
Own
Sense
Dedication
Our
Thoroughly
High
Must
Risk
Purpose
Inspired
Knights
Mission
Involvement
Knows
Limitations
Understood
Overlook
Beforehand
Personal
Often
Jedi
Need
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
William Hague
Truth
Good
You
Speak
Discipline
Sense
High
High Standards
Without
Common
Afraid
Common Sense
Standards
I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
Wilma Rudolph
Never Give Up
Day
Every Day
Determination
Matter
Sense
Every
Else
Ran
Would
Spirit
Give
Never
Up
Happened
Acquired
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Example
Sense
Society
Taken
New
Always
Surprise
Any
Common
Common Sense
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson
Positive
Love
Love Is
Miracles
Sense
Everything
Miracle
Inspires
Occur
Real
Them
Naturally
Expressions
No sense makes sense.
Charles Manson
Sense
No Sense
Makes
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