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"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Zen
Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I create a new and more loving story
to surround each event in my past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
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Property is intended to serve life,
and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,
it has no personal being.
It is part of the earth man walks on.
It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with Spirit. Spirit is within me.
Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.
Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
I am one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
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
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Where there's life, there's hope.
- Terence
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Trust in what you love, continue to do it,
and it will take you where you need to go.
- Natalie Goldberg
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Compassion blooms where there is no expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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