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Things are only impossible until they're not. ...
by Star Trek

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

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There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

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.

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

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 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

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)

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

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)

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

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

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

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate and markets
and roadways and others, I do control myself
and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The most important promises are
the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we makes to ourselves
are the things that assure us
we have the capacity
to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus


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