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There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Related topics: Wisdom
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
My Peace is Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
I am at Peace with myself,
my family, my community, and the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
- Osho
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
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