Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
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
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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.
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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
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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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
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
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
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- 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 ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
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
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 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
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
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.
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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
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The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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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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