Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
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A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
I argue thee that love is life.
And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are never alone.
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Know that you are special, and unique in all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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