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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
"Supernatural" is a null word.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky
and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking,
how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers,
whose trade it is to question everything,
yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
- Thomas Jefferson
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
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
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
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