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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb 
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Mark Twain
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
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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)
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
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 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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
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
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
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
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
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
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
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
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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