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Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
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Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
- Jimmy Carter
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
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The past is no more and the future is not yet.
The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,
whose arrow is directed to the moment,
who is always here and now; wherever he is,
his whole consciousness, his whole being,
is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
- Osho
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride
in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
- John F. Kennedy
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle,
gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
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Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
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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.
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In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...
Every step toward the goal of justice
requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle;
the tireless exertions and
passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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 Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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