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Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
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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
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
There is a fine line between
the perseverance of the courageous tortoise
and the habit of the stubborn donkey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- Lao Tzu
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
When we have arrived at the question,
the answer is already near.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
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