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Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Fear
The basic thing nobody asks is
why do people take drugs of any sort?
Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?
I mean, is there something wrong with society
that's making us so pressurized,
that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
- John Lennon
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
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
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
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
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
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.
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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 you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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