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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys
on a minor planet of a very average star.
But we can understand the Universe.
That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
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