Composition Quotes

Nothing goes by luck in composition.
It allows of no tricks.
The best you can write will be the best you are.
- Henry David Thoreau

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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

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- 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

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

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

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- 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 splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

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

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

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 is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho

I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias

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 external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

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

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel

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 softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- 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

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

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