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Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller 
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- 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
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
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
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
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
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- 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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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