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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
Discourage litigation.
Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
As a peacemaker the lawyer has
superior opportunity of being a good man.
There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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