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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind;
it requires the same effort of the brain
that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller
One's own religion is after all
a matter between oneself
and one's Maker and no one else's.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,
one must above all be a sheep oneself.
- Albert Einstein
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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