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Violent means will give violent freedom.
That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How wrong is it for women to expect
the man to build the world she wants,
rather than set out to create it herself.
- Anais Nin
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray
See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man.
They die up to a point.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A weak man is just by accident.
A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
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
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
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