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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
Related topics: Wisdom
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I sincerely believe that banking establishments
are more dangerous than standing armies,
and that the principle of spending money
to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,
is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
- Thomas Jefferson
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion
is the truest to every man even if it stands low
in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary.
Choosing a school, choosing a career,
getting married, having kids -
all those things are scary.
If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
- Paul Tornier
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
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)
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- 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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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)
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)
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
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
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
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
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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
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 know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
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
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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