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Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
- Pythagoras
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 
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)
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
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People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
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Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
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To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
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Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
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Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
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Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
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To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
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When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
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