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Posted by nabil medawar in Inspirational Quotes, Life Lessons, Quotations, Words of wisdom, tags: be safe, playing safe, safe, safer, safest, safety, secure, unsafe
- Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it’s the people on them who aren’t.~ Author Unknown
- As cowardly as a coward is, it is not safe to call a coward a coward.~ Author Unknown
- A short absence is the safest.~ Ovid
- Better safe than sorry. ~ English Proverb
- Caution is the parent of safety. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Don’t learn safety rules simply by accident.~ Author Unknown
- Don’t play for safety — it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.~ Sir Hugh Walpole
- Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ~ Jimmy Johnson
- Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.~ Edmund Burke
- Falling teaches us to walk safely. ~ Dutch Proverb
- Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.~ John Fountain
- He that’s secure is not safe.~ Benjamin Franklin
- He who builds and he who marries are never safe. ~ Swedish Proverb
- Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.~ Thomas C. Haliburton
- If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.~ Josh Billings
- If we cannot end our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity.~ John F. Kennedy
- If you don’t fail now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe.~ Woody Allen
- If you play it safe in life, you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow anymore.~ Shirley Hufstedler
- If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.~ Maurice Chevalier
- In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness? ~ Sophocles
- It is much safer to obey, than to govern.~ Thomas a Kempis
- It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.~ Edward H. Harriman
- It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.~ Dag Hammarskjold
- It is safest to sail within reach of the shore. ~ Dutch Proverb
- Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.~ Ovid
- Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.~ Abraham Lincoln
- Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go.~ William Blake
- No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.~ Sir Walter Raleigh
- Obscurity brings safety.~ Aesop
- One can advise comfortably from a safe port.~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
- One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.~ Abraham H. Maslow
- Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.~ Aesop
- Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- Playing safe is only playing.~ Chuck Olson
- Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders.~ Author Unknown
- Safety is from God alone.~ Motto
- That’s a wise delay which makes the road safe.~ Spanish Proverb
- The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. ~ Irish Proverb
- The best safety lies in fear.~ William Shakespeare
- The coward threatens when he is safe.~ Goethe
- The one who rings the fire bell is safe. ~ Spanish Proverb
- There is always safety in valor.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.~ Winston Churchill
- The safest hope is in heaven.~ Motto
- The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.~ Kin Hubbard
- The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.~ Charles H. Parkhurst
- The tongue is safe; even among thirty teeth. ~ Indian Proverb
- The way to be safe is never to be secure.~ Benjamin Franklin
- The wronged side is always the safest.~ Richard Sibbes
- To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Truth is the safest lie.~ Traditional Proverb
- We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.~ Edmund Burke
- When there is no enemy it is safe to fight.~ German Proverb
- When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.~ Barbara Sher
- With a friend behind you, you have a safe bridge.~ Dutch Proverb
- You will go most safely in the middle.~ Ovid

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- A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice. ~ Author Unknown
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! ~Gail Sheehy
- Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.~ Gerald Gardner
- Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.~ Arabian Proverb
- I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That’s the only thing that would explain why I like a snck on Purina Do Chow.~ Dean Koontz
- I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That’s what I told my kids. I think I must have been Adolf Hitler in a past life.~ Roseanne Barr
- I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.~ Patricia Velasquez
- I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.~ Nathan Hale
- It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.~ S. I. Hayakawa
- I trained in the Kabbalah: different to Madonna’s. I followed the Western tradition, which involves tarot, astrology, past life regression, meditation. ~ David Wells
- I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.~Marcel Proust
- I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.~ William H. Macy
- Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.~ Muhammad Ali
- Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~ French Proverb
- Oh yes as a matter of fact it’s quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.~ L. Ron Hubbard
- One man’s death is another man’s life.~ Maltese Proverb
- Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and there is only one glory, which is eternal. If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.~ St. Teresa of Avila
- There is just one life for each of us: our own.~ Euripides
- To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.~ Marcus Valerius Martial
- To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.~ Omar Nelson Bradley
- Who cares about great marks left hind? We have one life… Just one. it life. We have nothing else.~ Ugo Betti
- Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. ~ Ted Andrews

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- All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.~ Author Unknown
- All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.~ Author Unknown
- A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.~ Robert Redford
- A lot of what acting is paying attention.~ Nancy Reagan
- As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew Carnegie
- Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.~ Andy Warhol
- Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.~ William John Bennett
- I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle
- I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.~ Susan Sontag
- If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.~ Samuel Butler
- If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.~ Tom Peters
- I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
- Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.~ Susan M. Dodd
- No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.~ John Holt
- Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman
- Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.~ Antisthenes
- Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them…as you make the effort.~ Og Mandino
- Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been created in honor of a critic.~ Jean Sibelius
- People don’t pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.~ Florence Griffith-Joyner
- People will teach you how to sell them if you’ll pay attention to the messages they send you.~ Author Unknown
- Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.~ Deepak Chopra
- Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
- The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.~ Philip Crosby
- The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.~ Author Unnown
- The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan
- The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.~ Thomas J. Peters
- To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself… ~ W. H. Auden
- You can’t pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it’s… very important to ignore the negative.~ Jerry Rubin
- You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.~ Paulo Coelho
- You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond
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Posted by nabil medawar in Life Lessons, tags: a life without love, desire of life, enjoy life, Life, life is a journey, life is short, live, live your life, make a life, make a living, Real life, What is life, Wonderful life
- A life lived in love will never be dull.~ Leo Buscaglia
- Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.~ Phillips Brooks
- Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home.~ Vietnamese Proverb
- Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.~ Bertolt Brecht
- Even when months and days are long, life is short.~ Japanese Proverb
- For the first five years of your son’s life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.~ Indian Proverb
- He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life.~ Japanese Proverb
- I am not just here to make a living; I am here to make a life.~ Helice Bridges
- I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.~ Les Brown
- I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.~ Robert Browning
- In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.~ Sid Caesar
- In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.~ German Proverb
- It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.~ Irish Proverb
- It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.~ Evangeline Cory Booth
- It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.~ Japanese Proverb
- It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.~ Lord Byron
- Leadership shortens life.~ Hebrew Proverb
- Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.~ Buddha
- Life’s but a day at most.~ George Burns
- Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.~ Indian Proverb
- Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back.~ Japanese Proverb
- Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.~ John Burroughs
- Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.~ Iranian Proverb
- Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.~ Samuel Butler
- Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then.~ Indian Proverb
- Life is one long process of getting tired.~ Samuel Butler
- Life is the source of all things. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.~ Leo Buscaglia
- Live everyday fully as if it were your last.~ Buddha
- Live your own life, for you will die your own death.~ Latin Proverb
- Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life.~ George Burns
- Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund Burke
- No fate is worse than a life without a love.~ Mexican Proverb
- One moment of intense happiness prolongs life by a thousand years.~ Japanese Proverb
- Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.~ Philip Butler
- People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.~ Nicholas Murray Butler
- Real life seems to have no plots.~ Ivy Compton Burnett
- The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.~ Nadia Boulanger
- The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.~ French Proverb
- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.~ James Branch Cabell
- The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.~ Joan Borysenko
- The secret of joy is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.~ Pearl S. Buck
- The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.~ Heywood Broun
- This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.~ Buddha
- To enjoy life is worth so much more than it costs.~ French Proverb
- To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.~ Samuel Butler
- What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.~ Pedro la Barca
- You are learning all your life and you die stupid.~ Lithuanian Proverb
- You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil.~ Japanese Proverb
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- It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.~ Mahatma Gandhi
- No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.~ Kahlil Gibran
- The wife yearns for gold and silver, and her friends, the senses, yearn for good food.~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
- A woman is like the moon-some nights it is silver others gold.~ Armenian Proverb
- All that glitters is not gold, nor all that sparkles silver.~ Finnish Proverb
- Better to have a friend on the road than gold and silver in your purse.~ French Proverb
- Brandy is as lead in the morning, silver at noon, and gold at night.~ German Proverb
- He who sleeps in a silver bed has golden dreams.~ German Proverb
- Talking is silver, silence is golden.~ Hebrew Proverb
- Sleep on a bed of silver and dream of gold.~ Lithuanian Proverb
- Speech is silver; silence is golden.~ Swiss Proverb
- Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity.~ Apocrypha
- The law of Thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.~ The Holy Bible
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