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Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Michel de Montaigne
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz) 
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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.
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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.
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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)
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
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
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Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
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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
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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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
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
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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)
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- 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 astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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