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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
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Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
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To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
I want to know all Gods thoughts;
all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
- Henry David Thoreau
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
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Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
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
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
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People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm
that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts
and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results.
- Carl Jung
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
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