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There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
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What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare 
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
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
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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