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Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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May your season shine with delight and surprise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
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Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
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The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I hope that you walk around the corner
and you get very surprised.
- Miranda Richardson
When we got into office, the thing
that surprised me most
was to find that things were just as bad
as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
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
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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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]
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
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