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To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
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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
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- 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
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
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Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
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You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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