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«Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.»
Author: Jack Handey (Actor, Comedian, Writer) | About: Funny | Keywords: away, criticize, criticizes, mile, shod, shoes, walk
«Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.»
«Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.»
«I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.»
«A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.»
«If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.»
«Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!»
«I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.»
«If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?»
«If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.»