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Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
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Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
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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
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
- Jimmy Carter
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
The past is no more and the future is not yet.
The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,
whose arrow is directed to the moment,
who is always here and now; wherever he is,
his whole consciousness, his whole being,
is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
- Osho
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride
in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
- John F. Kennedy
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle,
gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...
Every step toward the goal of justice
requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle;
the tireless exertions and
passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
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