Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on
does not constitute so strong an attachment
as that from which they draw their gains.
- Thomas Jefferson
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
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
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
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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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