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There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
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I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I sincerely believe that banking establishments
are more dangerous than standing armies,
and that the principle of spending money
to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,
is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
- Thomas Jefferson
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion
is the truest to every man even if it stands low
in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary.
Choosing a school, choosing a career,
getting married, having kids -
all those things are scary.
If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
- Paul Tornier
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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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)
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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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)
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
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
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
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
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate and markets
and roadways and others, I do control myself
and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
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