I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
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"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
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Know that you are special, and unique in all creation.
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He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
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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
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
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
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Know that love has no limits.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
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Know that you do not need the approval of others.
You are unique and magnificent. Stand tall, stand proud.
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Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
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Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
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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
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- 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
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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)
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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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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