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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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie



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