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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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For those who do not live in fear of scarcity, life is unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
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
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Cooperation is less stressful than competition.
- 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
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every dog has his day.
- Proverb
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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