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I hope you find these Naguib Mahfouz Quotes inspiring and motivational.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
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
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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