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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That which is hateful to you,
do not do to your fellow.
That is the whole Torah;
the rest is the explanation.
- Talmud (Jewish Wisdom)
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
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
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty.
- Lao Tzu
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We climb the steps to nowhere - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
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)
Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
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