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To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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