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It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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)
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
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
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate and markets
and roadways and others, I do control myself
and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- 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
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