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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Related topics: Wisdom Motivational Perseverance
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- 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
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
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
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
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