There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage,
a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman
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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- 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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
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 the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
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
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
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
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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