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Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Related topics: Wisdom
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
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)
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
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
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
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
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
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
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
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
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