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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
There is a natural aristocracy among men.
The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ
in color for a full hour,
there would be a considerable number of stations
which would decline to carry it on the grounds
that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground
as you reach for the stars.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson
I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
To say that authority, whether secular or religious,
supplies no ground for morality
is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
- John Lennon
My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- The Buddha
The crops were planted, tended, and harvested -
now the ground lies fallow, awaiting the new planting.
Did the year fail? I think not.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
- Douglas Adams
To the Master's honor all must turn,
each in its track, without a sound,
forever tracing Newton's ground.
- Albert Einstein
Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Organic buildings are the strength
and lightness of the spiders' spinning,
buildings qualified by light,
bred by native character to environment,
married to the ground.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
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
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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