The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
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The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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)
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
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
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
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 had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
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
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
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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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