Greetings, cosmic children of the universe.
Welcome to my serenity circle.
Please leave all bad vibes outside the healing vortex.
- the movie Shrek the Third (2007)
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected
in a cosmic religion for the future:
It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology;
it covers both the natural and the spiritual,
and it is based on a religious sense
aspiring from the experience of all things,
natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
- Albert Einstein
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,
there is only the meaning we each give to our life,
an individual meaning, an individual plot,
like an individual novel, a book for each person.
- Anais Nin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it
is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray
An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One who breaks an unjust law
that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends
and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it.
- John Lennon
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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)
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
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Know that you are loved.
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How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
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The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
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Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
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
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
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Know that you do not need the approval of others.
You are unique and magnificent. Stand tall, stand proud.
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
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When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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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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