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Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words will never hurt me.
- schoolyard rhyme
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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 
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
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Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
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May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
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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.
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
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This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
May your essence be the nectar of the open blossom of your joy.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
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The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Tears and laughter cleanse the heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
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