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Your world is as big as you make it.
Georgia Douglas Johnson

I do not know what the future may bring, but I have always believed that I should be held accountable for all the good and bad that I do.
Gerard Jervis

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
William James

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into how water.
Franklin O. Jones

In democracy it's your vote that counts, in feudalism it's your count that votes.
Magens Jallberg

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
Janis Joplin

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Susan Jeffers

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong

Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
Kaleel Jamison

If you choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones, actress

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung

Heart is what separates the good from the great.
Michael Jordan

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson

Hope makes today possible and tomorrow attractive, or at least less threatening. Hope makes death bearable... hope is the mainstay of our energy. We go forward because we hope.
Arthur Jones

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother.
Barbara Johnson, writer

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
WIlliam James, educator

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who understand it.
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands

If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
Allyson Jones

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

This should be a man's attitude: "Few things will disturb him at all; nothing will disturb him much."
Thomas Jefferson

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go.
Andrew Jackson

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1846), 3rd U.S. President

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan (1936-1996), politician

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James (1842-1910), psychologist

Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James (1843-1916), writer

With the milk of human kindness, there should be no such thing as skim.
Steve Johnson, journalist

There may be times when the best decision is to do nothing.
Ray Josephs, business executive

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky, psychiatrist

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), lexicographer

I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
Barbara Jordan

Slow down with the furniture!
Kevin James

How big are muffins going to get before we all join hands across America?
Kevin James

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Thomas Jefferson

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Samuel Johnson (1709-84), lexicographer

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel

A language is never in a state of fixation, but is always changing; we are not looking at a lantern-slide but at a moving picture.
Andrew Lloyd James, linguist

Your vision becomes clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson

Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.
Sara Jordan, gastroenterologist

It's OK to mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875-1961), psychiatrist

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James (1920-), writer

A dead end is just a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd

When a man is tired of London... he is tired of life.
Samuel Johnson

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