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It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
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Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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 am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
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You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
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All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
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