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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius 
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
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
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
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Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
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It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
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When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
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You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
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The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
For everything observed or experienced,
each of us creates a "story" - not sometimes, but always.
A "story" is the fiction a person tells themselves
about what has happened or is happening.
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
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For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
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We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
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When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
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
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