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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin

Life, Love, Dreams

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan

Someone, Last, Eat

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Home, Happy

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Heart, Find, Wish

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Long, Happen, Attention

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

Rain, Place, Weather

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Experience, Mind, Old

It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

Life, Anger, Hurt

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

Love, Heart, Lost

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Reason, Whatever

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn

Home, Sadness, Father

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

Home, Children, Human

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado

Turn, Wants, Lead

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond

Life, Love, Done

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara de Angelis

Lose, Loving, Holding

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Live, Able

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

Work, Good, Lost

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Time, Car, Possible

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

Anyone, Empty, Hearts

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Life, Love, Found

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving

Love, Mother, Father

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson

Person, Turn, Eye

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.
Angie Stone

Nothing, Give, Sets

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Joyce Meyer

God, Morning, Sunday

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau

Unless, Planning

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins

Life, Give, Gift

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, Abyss, Gaze

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