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Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) 
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
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I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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)
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
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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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)
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
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
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
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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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
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
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
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To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
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The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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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The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
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 know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
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
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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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