A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Wisdom Acceptance
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.
Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself.
I choose to be flexible in my dealings with those around me.
I understand that my way is not the only way -
that inner peace comes from respecting the ways of others,
and that, if I am open, I may gain great insights and happiness
from the ideas and traditions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
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
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
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- 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
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
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
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
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
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
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
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
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
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
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
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
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 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
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
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
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- 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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.
Jonathan Huie jlh(at)jlhuie(dot)com - About & Disclosure