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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
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Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained.
- Marie Curie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
God is Within You!
You yourself are the creator.
If you find that place within you
from which you brought this thing about,
you will be able to live with it and affirm it,
perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
- Joseph Campbell
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
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 most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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