Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke 
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz) 
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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)
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
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
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
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
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
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
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 where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
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
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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