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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
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I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
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Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
- Max Lucado
It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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