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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
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FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perfection is the obstacle of creation
and the enemy of achievement.
- Neale Donald Walsch
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Gratitude in advance is the most powerful
creative force in the universe.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Nobody needs your help.
I know, I know, this is a difficult one. But it is true.
This does not mean no one wants your help,
or that no one could use your help.
It simply means the thought that another
Aspect of Divinity is powerless without you is inaccurate.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You always have everything you need, right here, right now.
Do you know how I know? You're still here.
If you hadn't always been given everything you ever needed,
you wouldn't be here.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Every decision you make - every decision -
is not a decision about what to do.
It's a decision about Who You Are.
When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes.
You begin to see life in a new way.
All events, occurrences, and situations
turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
- Neale Donald Walsch
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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