I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups.
A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- The Buddha
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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)
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
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I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
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Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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 manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
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Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Know that love has no limits.
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A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
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
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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Know that you are loved.
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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
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
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
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Know that you are special, and unique in all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
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
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
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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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