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Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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
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)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
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
"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
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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)
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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
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