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If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
- Omar Khayyam
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
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
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
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
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
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