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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?
I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.
It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot,
we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
As a nation of freemen, we must live
through all time, or die by suicide.
- Abraham Lincoln
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves
into a different matter altogether.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
With Malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
It really does matter when we tell even the slightest untruth.
Even something as well intentioned as
telling someone their ill-finished
hair style looks wonderful will backfire -
certainly karmically, and usually practically.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful
than the wound we suffered,
to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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)
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that unconditional forgiveness
holds immense power to relieve your suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today, I say yes to forgiving.
I commit to being for-giving love
and for-giving compassion in all areas of my life.
- Sheri Rosenthal
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
I Release Myself From All Guilt.
I forgive myself for judging me guilty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
- Terry Goodkind
I forgive for my own sake,
that I may transmute my resentments into Unconditional Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unconditional forgiveness is the path to your own inner peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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