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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
"Supernatural" is a null word.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky
and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
If the present Congress errs in too much talking,
how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers,
whose trade it is to question everything,
yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
- Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
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