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Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
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Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
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
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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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
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)
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
When I hear "you have to...",
I say that there is nothing I "HAVE TO" do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
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
Happiness comes when I remember that others' opinions of me
are just their opinions - nothing more.
I find happiness in moving toward my goals
regardless of the applause or the jeers of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
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