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Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no person in this room whose basic rights
are not involved in any successful defiance
to the carrying out of court orders.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hope we shall crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson (from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816)
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Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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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I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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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Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
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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Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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.
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
The River of Life flows eternally,
with infinite strength,
but with no convictions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Property is intended to serve life,
and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,
it has no personal being.
It is part of the earth man walks on.
It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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