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Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
For those who do not live in fear of scarcity, life is unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
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
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Questions are a microscope peering into the depths of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
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
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu
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