I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
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A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician:
he is also a child confronting natural phenomena
that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
- Marie Curie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
- Isaac Newton
(discoverer of the laws of gravitation and motion,
famous mathematician, and perhaps the greatest scientist ever)
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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
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
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.
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
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 seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Choose the World You See.
- 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
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
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
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
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- 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
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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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