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Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Related topics: Wisdom
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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)
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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)
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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