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Nothing goes by luck in composition.
It allows of no tricks.
The best you can write will be the best you are.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller 
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
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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)
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
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Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
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The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
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"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
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I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
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