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Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
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Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
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Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
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TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
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TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
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You are not your mind. You, a Spiritual BEing,
are neither your mind nor your body.
Mind and body are your tools - to use as you choose.
Sometimes your body appears to have a will of its own,
as when it twitches or pains.
Likewise, your mind often appears to have its own will.
That incessant chattering of regret, disappointment, guilt,
shame, foreboding, worry, and fear
is your Rattlesnake Mind striking off on its own.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Geography has made us neighbors.
History has made us friends.
Economics has made us partners,
and necessity has made us allies.
Those whom God has so joined together,
let no man put asunder.
- John F. Kennedy
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
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So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
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I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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