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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
Related topics: Wisdom
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- 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
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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)
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)
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
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