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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Sense the life force -
what the Chinese call "Qi" -
radiating powerfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
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)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
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
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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)
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
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
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
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)
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- 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
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
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
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
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
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
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
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 most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
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