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Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Related topics: Wisdom
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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)
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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)
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
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
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
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
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
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
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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