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The artist is nothing without the gift,
but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon
The highest art is always the most religious,
and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law
from observation of the works of Genius,
whether of man or Nature.
The Artisan is he who merely applies
the rules which others have detected.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
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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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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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)
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
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
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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 so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
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
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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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
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.
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Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
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I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
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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)
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 external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
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
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
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