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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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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) 
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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)
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
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
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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