Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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 in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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)
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
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
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.
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Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
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
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
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
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- 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
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
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
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
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
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
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
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
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
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
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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