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Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Related topics: Spiritual Unity Oneness
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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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)
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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