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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood,
only they are not rightly disposed.
- Henry David Thoreau
The search after the great men is the dream of youth,
and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
The wine of youth does not always
clear with advancing years;
sometimes it grows turbid.
- Carl Jung
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth.
It makes all things alive and significant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Probably the happiest period in life
most frequently is in middle age,
when the eager passions of youth are cooled,
and the infirmities of age not yet begun;
as we see that the shadows,
which are at morning and evening so large,
almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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)
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
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
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
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