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We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and,
like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year
and of the season of which we are born.
Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
- Carl Jung
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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 must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
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
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
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.
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
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
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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