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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
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To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
- Henry David Thoreau
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
I want to know all Gods thoughts;
all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
'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
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
All successful people men and women are big dreamers.
They imagine what their future could be,
ideal in every respect,
and then they work every day toward
their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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