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There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Related topics: Wisdom Live-By
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
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