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Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
Related topics: Wisdom Simplicity
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.
Endings: what must precede new beginnings.
Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.
Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -
as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourish
in the decay of last year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new
continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
Incite a riot of new ideas.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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