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It is the quality of the moment,
not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Values
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
Morality is of the highest importance -
but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
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
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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)
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
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)
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no evil and there are
no evil forces in the world.
There are only people of awareness,
and there are people who are fast asleep -
and sleep has no force.
The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people.
And one awakened person can awaken the whole world.
One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted
without losing it's light.
- Osho
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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