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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
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Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
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Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
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It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
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Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
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When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
I Never "Need To"
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If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Know that you are never alone.
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You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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