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Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha 
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
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)
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
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
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
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
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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