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A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
I am determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington
It is incontestable and deplorable
that Negroes have committed crimes;
but they are derivative crimes.
They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade,
but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement
the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,
that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
Seeing my glass of life as mostly full
triggers an amazing cycle of transformation
Appreciation for the abundance of life incites gratitude -
which brings on that warm comfortable
feeling of joy and satisfaction with life.
Gratitude for abundance also creates increasing abundance.
Being truly grateful for the abundance that
is now in my life causes an ever greater abundance
to flow in my direction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A conversation is greater than
the sum of its participants,
and can take on a life of its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess,
we act and think in vain,
and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison
Man tends to increase at a greater rate
than his means of subsistence.
- Charles Darwin
Real love is never a selfish emotion.
If you want something from someone -
especially if that something is sex -
what you are feeling is not true love.
True love is about wanting happiness for the person you love -
and not about seeking happiness for yourself.
Fortunately, in most cases our own loving presence
is the greatest gift we can give to a person we love.
Nonetheless, the litmus test of love is knowing
we would choose never to see that person again
if we believed that distance would bring them greater happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.
I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
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