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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb) 
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
Sense the life force -
what the Chinese call "Qi" -
radiating powerfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is a moderately good play
with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
I have never written a book that didn't teach me
far more than it taught any reader.
- Isaac Asimov
It is a fact often observed,
that men have written good verses
under the inspiration of passion,
who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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