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Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Related topics: Wisdom
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb 
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
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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)
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
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)
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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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)
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
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
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
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- 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
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
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
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
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- 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
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
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
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese 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
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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