He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Trust in dreams, for in them
is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Khalil Gibran
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Open the gates and roll out the red carpet,
for I am entering the kingdom of peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- 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
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
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
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
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
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
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
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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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