To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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)
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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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
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
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.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
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
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
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
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
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
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
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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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