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A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
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
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
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Better late than never.
- Proverb
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the wise man looks into space
and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
There is a fine line between
the perseverance of the courageous tortoise
and the habit of the stubborn donkey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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