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Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu
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True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
The River of Life flows eternally,
with infinite strength,
but with no convictions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
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