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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
Neither blame or praise yourself.
- Plutarch
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
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
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
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
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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
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
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
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