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Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Related topics: Wisdom
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
- Pythagoras
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) 
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
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If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- 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
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest gift you can give the world is your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Know that you can always choose your own inner peace -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that unconditional forgiveness
holds immense power to relieve your suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
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
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know that you can have whatever you want,
when you ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of breathing deeply and slowly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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