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All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Related topics: Spiritual Live-By Unity
Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Chief Seattle
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
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All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
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