Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
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I argue thee that love is life.
And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that a flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of breathing deeply and slowly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- 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
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Know that life is most joyful when you
neither attempt to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that life is most joyfully lived boldly -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you hold the power to
bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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