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Love is saying yes to belonging. -- David Steindl-Rast
You can only get more in life by saying YES. -- Marshall Sylver
Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes. -- Rob Lowe
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door. -- Arnaud Desjardins
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. -- Tara Brach
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. -- Tony Blair
Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes. -- Cody Simpson
Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. -- Amy Poehler
Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes. -- Stephen Colbert
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. -- Josh Billings
Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying `yes' to God. In him we find joy. -- Pope Francis
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you. -- Susan Jeffers
Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know. -- Tama J. Kieves
I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes' -- Ringo Starr
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life? -- Eric Allen
There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it! -- Jack Canfield
No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don't forget to dare to dream with God. You don't have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does. -- Lysa TerKeurst
One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business... -- Wayne Dyer
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. -- Steve Jobs
You don't get anywhere without saying yes. -- Joel Stein
Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas. -- Nolan Bushnell
I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no. -- Steve Jobs
Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with. -- Alberto Villoldo
Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes. -- Tom Hanks
Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else. -- Mireille Guiliano
We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes. -- Malcolm Forbes
Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another. -- Dan Millman
I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no". -- Richard Branson
If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love. -- Leo Buscaglia
I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no. -- Richard Patrick
The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes. -- Julianna Margulies
I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no. -- Richard Branson
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself. -- Paulo Coelho
Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities. -- Seth Godin
ï¿¼ï¿¼Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months. -- Mike Lee
Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest -- Marcello Mastroianni
I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism. -- Austin Fischer
Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. -- Jim Carrey
Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should." -- Erica Jong
Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes. -- Sean Covey
Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman. -- Lysa TerKeurst
If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die. -- Susan Sarandon
I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health. -- Laura Benanti
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making. -- John Currin
I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means. -- Jenny Downham
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. -- Eckhart Tolle
Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself! -- Suze Orman
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Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science. -- Carl Woese
May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are. -- Carol Emshwiller
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work. -- Seth Godin
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones. -- Marc Andreessen
Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no". -- Eda LeShan
My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain. -- Phyllis George
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones -- Marc Andreessen
I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life. -- Richard Branson
We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory. -- Paulo Coelho
This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention. -- Esther Hicks
Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.' -- Evangeline Lilly
You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes." -- Marshall Sylver
Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes." -- Peggy Orenstein
An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.' -- Tina Fey
To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'. -- Sam Keen
So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes. -- Gena Showalter
The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either. -- Lois Wyse
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'. -- Eddie Condon
There is no reason for him to be in a strange land, the grim reaper holding him close, saying, Yes, today is the day, or No, not yet. -- Suzanne Hayes
Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant. -- Judith Martin
I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them. -- Danny Wallace
One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes." -- BrenÃ© Brown
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now. -- Wangari Maathai
The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people. -- Steve Jobs
Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie. -- Mike Myers
Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter. -- Greg McKeown
There is no real time, only one moment immediately after creation where God asked humanity to join Him. What humanity perceives as time, all of history, is the hesitation in saying "Yes. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes. -- Gayle Forman
When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot. -- Ry Russo-Young
I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere. -- Noah Emmerich
A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, Yes, someone like me can do this. -- Sonia Sotomayor
One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you. -- Josh Radnor

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