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
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The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
No one has been barred on account of his race
from fighting or dying for America,
there are no white or colored signs
on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
- John F. Kennedy
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny
is in trouble and reminders that its structure
is as brittle as its surface is hard.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I've always had a love for poetry,
and when I got signed to a record label I thought,
"How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry."
- Jewel
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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)
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
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
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
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
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
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I 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
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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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