Quotes by Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

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Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

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)

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel

Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias

Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates

Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie