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Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving
what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
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Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading.
I will rather say more necessary
because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank
O Day of days when we can read!
The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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 are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
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