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Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You CAN do what you are committed to do -
regardless of how difficult it seems.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Ask why this task is on your to-do list.
Consider discarding those items to which
you are not truly committed.
For the tasks which do speak
to the longings of your own heart,
begin now, today, this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING that has ever occurred
to bring me to this moment.
I accept that no one else is ever to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life,
and I am committed to consistently distinguishing
between my feelings about events
and the physical occurrences of those events.
I declare that everyone who has ever played
any role in any of the events of my life
is entirely without fault.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion -
I forgive everyone, especially myself,
for all actions and all inactions throughout my entire life.
I accept that no one else has ever been to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life,
and I am committed to consistently distinguishing
between my feelings about events
and the physical occurrence of those events.
I declare that everyone who has ever played any role
in any of the events of my life is entirely without fault.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is incontestable and deplorable
that Negroes have committed crimes;
but they are derivative crimes.
They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed
in a prior state of existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Never quit.
- Anonymous
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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